If I want to understand where billionaire careers actually begin, I start with the industries that keep appearing in wealth rankings and career analyses. Across recent breakdowns of top fortunes, four ...

If you took the total amount of wealth gained by the world’s billionaires over the last year and gave every person in the world $250, billionaires would still have $500 billion left over. Between 1989 ...

Like most Americans, I enter 2026 concerned about our billionaires. Are they happy? Are their dreams being realized? Are they living in the kind of extravagant comfort to which they’re entitled? It ...

Many New Year's traditions are meant to bring prosperity in the months ahead, but America's relationship to wealth is complicated. As billionaires' influence has grown, so too has skepticism. In a ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Nathan Goldman is a tax prof. at NC State Univ. The 2026 Billionaire Tax Act has sent shockwaves across the U.S. This act is ...