Hard Currency: What a Ton of Cash Will Buy

With more and more financial transactions being conducted electronically, it’s easy to forget the physicality of money. What a dollar weighs, or a pile of them. So just for fun, let’s start piling up the Benjamins and see what …

Will China’s ‘Have-Nots’ Be Next to Rebel?

In most respects, China is a world away from the oil-dominated autocracies in the Mideast now seething with anti-government unrest. But it faces similar issues: high inflation and a troubling wealth gap that could fuel social u…

The Top Wealth-Creating CEOs of 2010

Which CEOs have helped deliver the best returns to investors — and which have done them no good at all? Chief Executive magazine has this year’s ranking of the top 50 best and worst wealth-creating CEOs. The No. 1 shareholder …