Despite the pandemic, it was a record-setting year for the world’s wealthiest—with a $5 trillion surge in wealth and an unprecedented number of new billionaires. It’s...
Meet the billionaire winners and losers of the dot-com bubble, Great Recession and Covid-19 crash. Crashes, wipe-outs, recessions. Fortunes are often forged, or fumbled away, in the...
From pig-manure power to wind farms, Virginia’s Dominion Energy is transforming itself into a renewable energy powerhouse—and Berkshire Hathaway’s cash will only accelerate the process. “Pigs...
It’s not just Amazon stock that has boosted the fortunes of its billionaire backer. Dramatic changes in the share prices of Tesla, Reliance and Microsoft have...
Topline: Following his annual letter to Berkshire Hathaway shareholders over the weekend, billionaire investor Warren Buffett told CNBC in an interview on Monday that the coronavirus is “scary stuff”...
Investors expecting big changes in tone, or radical shifts in strategy from Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger in Berkshire Hathaway’s 2018 shareholder letter were once again...
The once and future richest person in the world (once the Bezos divorce finalizes), Bill Gates will happily apply the dispassionate, sharp-elbowed logic that made him...
The gap between the really rich and the merely rich continues to widen, as fortunes soar to new heights. A record 2,208 billionaires made Forbes’ 32...
Some of the world’s richest people – including Warren Buffett, Mark Zuckerberg and Jeff Bezos – lost billions apiece on Monday as stocks took an ugly nosedive....
Warren Buffett may not know the way to Midland Road, Worcester, yet be sure he has looked very closely at the cost of making the ocean...
The old man would have been proud. You could find your way to the party of the year, blindfolded, by following the skirl of the pipes...
To celebrate a magazine that has always championed the power of the individual, we have amassed what we believe to be the greatest ever collection of...
It was another record year for the wealthiest people in America, as the price of admission to the country’s most exclusive club jumped nearly 18%. The...
For the 30 years FORBES has been tracking global wealth, only five people have ranked on our annual compendium of wealth as the richest person on...