Billionaire George Soros is making his first big (public) donation of the current election.

It can’t be easy being Jean-Victor Meyers.

Billionaire hedge funder David Einhorn caused a stir in financial circles this week with a Huffington Post column criticizing the Fed’s policy of easy money.

Appropriately, the world’s most expensive piece of art is called “The Scream.”

Americans for Prosperity has launched another advertising drive criticizing President Obama’s energy policies, Bloomberg Businessweek points out.

We can take you from street protests to an international comglomerate in four easy steps.

How deep is David Koch’s loyalty to Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker?

New Orleans Saints owner Tom Benson expanded his sports empire Friday, buying the NBA’s New Orleans Hornets.

Whenever the Obama administration calls for more openness in government, we wince a little.

Few families, even in the top 1 percent of the top 1 percent, have their own lobbyists. But the Waltons, heirs to the Wal-Mart fortune, do.

When the pope calls on Cuba to build an “open society,” he inadvertently calls George Soros to mind.

In the elite world of rare wines, where bottles can go for five figures, Rudy Kurniawan was a well-known dealer and collector.

Rachel Maddow showed some fascinating graphics Wednesday, illustrating voter affluence in the Republican primaries.

R. Alan Stanford, former billionaire and sports benefactor, was convicted Tuesday of fraud for masterminding a $7 billion Ponzi scheme.

Although Mitt Romney has made much of his Michigan roots, he doesn’t spend a lot of time publicly discussing his school experiences.

We don’t generally cover the party circuit, but sometimes the hosts make for irresistible Muckety maps.

Restore Our Future, the super PAC working for the election of Mitt Romney, collected donations of $100,000 or more from nearly 60 people and corporations in the last six months of 2011, according to a filing Tuesday.

Newt Gingrich has a sugar daddy in billionaire Sheldon Adelson, but Mitt Romney has a robust campaign organization in Florida with a battalion of well-connected people raising money for him.

Can a single household finance a presidential run?

Jeb Bush wrote an op-ed for the Wall Street Journal this week on capitalism and the “right to rise.”