The 2024 Forbes 400: The 25 wealthiest people in America
It’s never been better to be a super-billionaire.
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The one reason Warren Buffett isn’t the world’s richest person
Two decades ago, the Oracle of Omaha made one very costly decision.
Forbes World’s Billionaires List 2024: The Top 200
Here are the wealthiest people on Forbes’ annual rich list.
Donald Trump’s net worth more than doubles in one day
Donald Trump is more than $5 billion richer today after shares of Trump Media & Technology Group, which operates the Truth Social platform, began trading on the Nasdaq.
The 10 billionaires who gained the most wealth in 2023
The AI frenzy helped drive up the fortunes of the wealthiest tech tycoons.
Kim Kardashian just got $736 million richer thanks to Skims
Now valued higher than ever, the shapewear startup just added a half-billion to the richest Kardashian’s fortune.
The top 10 richest women in the world 2023
For the first time in three years, a self-made woman earns a spot among the top 10.
The world’s 15 youngest billionaires 2023
These young billionaires, including a couple very well-to-do teenagers, got rich quick.
The planet’s billionaires are nearly US$2 trillion poorer this year
It was a tough year for tech billionaires, Russian oligarchs–and Elon Musk.
Exclusive: Sam Bankman-Fried knew plenty about his Alameda Research hedge fund–and sent details to Forbes just months ago
With customers, investors and, potentially, law enforcement closing in, the fate of crypto wunderkind-turned-pariah Sam Bankman-Fried may rest on two key questions