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Even billionaires can get irritated about how much they're paying for cable every month.

He's probably been asked this question so many times, he's sick of answering it, which may be one explanation for his simple answer.

Cheap oil could bankrupt Saudi Arabia and further destabilize the Middle East.

New York real estate billionaire Larry Friedland didn't set out to be in the business he's in. He actually intended to become a pharmacist until he got hooked on real estate and changed his direction. Today he is a billionaire. This is how he did it.

Attention fathers of the world: You have been bested.

The art world was stunned earlier this week when a celebrated Amedeo Modigliani canvas sold for $170.4 million to a mysterious Chinese billionaire. The buyer was Liu Yiqian, a former taxi driver turned billionaire.

Russia rushes to avoid a looming demographic disaster that could shake its economy to the core – its aging population.

Bruno Wu is a billionaire with a lot of ideas for movies, even including one based on the video game Tetris.

The UK is home to 11,510 ultra high-net-worth (UHNW) citizens and is one of the countries with the highest UHNW populations – second in Europe, behind Germany. This group's combined net worth is $1.4 trillion!

Jaime Rosenthal is a Honduran banking mogul with 10,000 crocodiles, a $690 million fortune, and a big problem with the U.S. Treasury Department. Why is the U.S. targeting this Honduran businessman?

Rob Halliday-Stein is a UK billionaire who, for seven years, worked to acquire the internet domain of his dreams: gold.co.uk.

News broke Tuesday that Walgreen's is buying Rite Aid. The man behind the deal is secretive Italian billionaire Stefano Pessina… but who is he?

Natalia Potanina, the scorned ex-wife of Russia's richest oligarch has granted her first public interview about the cold treatment she's received from her husband of 30 years.

Billionaires Sanford and Joan Weill pledged a $20 million donation to Paul Smith's College, only to take it all back when they found out that the college couldn't be renamed after them.

House arrest isn't so bad when you're holed up in a luxurious multi-million penthouse in NYC. Even the $50 million bail amount isn't so bad when you've got a $1.8 billion net worth. Such is the plight of a billionaire businessman accused of bribery in Macau and Las Vegas.