Big Man In Brazil Eike Batista has ridden up the commodities boom to become the richest guy in his country. He aims to keep going. The Secret Tale of William Lauder Do rich folk get special treatment regarding the privacy of their court cases? A case study involves the chairman of Estee Lauder. Hollywood Heavyweight Arnon Milchan has made it big in pictures--as well as in arms sales, investing and fertilizer. The Hard Man of Russia Already big in steel, Alisher Usmanov can now claim to be his nation's largest player on the Web. Slumdog Billionaires A father and son are making a fortune rehabbing some of the worst neighborhoods in Mumbai. It's not a pretty business. China Developer's Lament Zhang Xin and her husband are the most familiar faces of a real estate boom in China. That doesn't make them a popular couple. |
Fact and Comment
Fact And Comment Oh, no! Fannie and Freddie are back! Side Lines 
Follow That Billionaire How hard is it to copy Warren Buffet's stock portfolio? Current Events 
Innocent Again We've forgotten the costs of price controls. Digital Rules 
The Not So Great Recession... The Great Recession shouldn't have been so "great." Departments Readers Say Ideas & Opinions On My Mind Heads Up Thoughts |
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Occidental Petroleum's Path to Easy Oil
Occidental Petroleum's California gusher shows that the U.S. might have more oil left than ever thought possible. |
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Blue State Blues
Which states are in the worst financial conditions? By and large, the ones where Democrats hold sway. |
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Hedge Fund Managers are Back
21 hedge fund billionaires who, as a group, recouped their losses from the 2008 crash. |
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Making Money Off of Insults
Jeffrey Goldblatt's Rejection Hotline fetched 600,000 callers in its first year, inspiring him to turn his Don Rickles prank into a business. |
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Follow-Through | Banking on Beal
Lots of people claim to have seen the financial crisis coming, but few people banked on it. Andrew Beal did. |
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Flashbacks | The New Old GM
30 years ago in Forbes. |
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Digital Tools | Computing's Killer Problem
The answer to the thorniest question involving computers is nowhere in sight, despite a $1 million bounty. |
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IRS Torture By Mail
The IRS' computers and clerks grind out millions of notices demanding more tax. Here's how to deal with them. |
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Annuities Aren't All The Same
Obama isn't saying which is the good kind. So we will. |
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Closing the Achievement Gap in Harlem
The White House wants to replicate the Harlem Children Zone nationwide. Not easy. |
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Plotting Crimes
Colin Drane wants to be the kingpin of criminal data. |
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Taking It All Off
To boost sales among men, P&G is pushing the art of shaving to new extremes. |
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Dumb Money
Sailing on soda bottles. Cloning cats. Creating clouds from seawater. Not all investments by the tech wealthy pan out. |
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Middle Eastern Mirage
Dubai's spectacular collapse has destroyed vast fortunes and exposed the dangers of doing business in the Gulf. What have investors learned? |
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Nonrefundable Deposit
The dashing Russian mogul Mikhail Prokhorov may cough up $53 million to charity. |
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Asian Tigresses
Half the world's 14 self-made female billionaires have struck it rich on China's mainland. |
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The Anti-Dennis Kozlowski
Covidien's Richard Meelia saw the good and the ugly from former Tyco boss Dennis Kozlowski. Now he's showing how to really run a business. |
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The $50 Million Price Point
There's an art to selling a ridiculously expensive piece of real estate. It starts with getting the buyer to think of a big number. |
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The Contrarian | Surviving Inflation
Some risks you should embrace, like stock market volatility. Some you should defend against, like rising prices. |
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Point of View | Credit Feast And Famine
Why isn't the economy booming? The Fed's high-powered money isn't going into bank deposits and loans to businesses and individuals. |
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Intrinsic Value | It's Payout Time
When P/E ratios stay put, there are only ways to make money: earnings-per-share growth and dividend yields. |
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