Should the Billionaire Club Start Paying Dues?

Austerity budgets are spreading everywhere, but wealth, new data show, has become more concentrated at the global economic summit than ever before. From Cairo to Palo Alto, even some conservatives are now talking wealth tax.

The Difference More Global Equality Could Make

Despite our current global economic hard times, says a new study from banking giant Credit Suisse, the world has more than enough wealth to ensure every adult on it a significant personal net-worth nest egg.

How Billionaires Could Race to Our Rescue

A modest tax on all U.S. personal fortunes over $1 billion could raise more than enough revenue from the Forbes 400 alone to erase the combined budget shortfalls of every state in the nation.

They Get Rich, We Get Ho-Hum Gadgets

Our economy would become the world’s most innovative, our elites have assured us over the past 30 years, if we gave our rich enough incentives to innovate. We kept to our end of the bargain. So where’s the innovation?

Census Time for Billionaires

The world’s super-duper rich, in the new Forbes magazine count, total just over 1,000 — and hold more wealth than half of humanity.

For the World’s Wealthy, A Setback Most Slight

The global economic collapse, says the first in-depth survey of grand fortune since last September, has left the world’s wealth just as intensely concentrated as ever.

‘Hard Times’ on Billionaire Boulevard

The world’s super rich, says the latest snapshot of global wealth, have lost humungous sums over the past year. Have billionaires, as some observers claim, now ‘suffered’ their way back to the rest of us?

A New Tally of the World’s Wealthy

Our planet’s ultra-rich have padded their fortunes to new record levels. Who says? The flaming radicals at Merrill Lynch.

Peace on Earth?

How about we start with equality in and among nations, a social commodity — says a just-released UN think tank report on global wealth distribution — in grotesquely short supply.