George Soros

Months ago, a homeless man entered Dwayne Hess' West Baltimore coffeehouse. He took in the scene for a few minutes, had a warm beverage, then headed for the door. Before he left, the man turned toward Hess, whom he had never met before, and said...

Note: A previous version of this story said more than 6,400 depositors lost $233 million when IndyMac failed. This version corrects that those people were in California only and adds another 2,300 underinsured depositors in other states and countries. It....

Warren Buffett and Bill Gates want the richest Americans to promise to give most of it away. In a campaign launched on Wednesday, the two billionaires are calling on the nation’s wealthiest people to formally pledge at least 50% of......

Text versions of the available tape transcripts played Wednesday. Formatting glitches are the result of copying .pdf files as text: DATE: 11/05/2008 TIME: 11:06 A.M. ACTIVITY: Rod Blagojevich home line incoming call. SESSION: 281 SPEAKERS: BLAGOJEVICH:...

Forbes magazine does a definitive study and finds she made a lot but much less than thought....

Culture Monster is kind of tired of applying the label "billionaire arts philanthropist" to Eli Broad and hardly anybody else. So the news Wednesday that hedge fund titan George Soros is giving $11 million to New York City performing arts......

Warren Buffett and Bill Gates say they’ve gotten pledges from 38 other super-rich Americans to give most of their wealth away to charity or other philanthropic causes during their lifetimes or at their death. In an announcement Wednesday, Buffett said.....

Hedge-fund giant quits. George Soros' one-time deputy Stanley Druckenmiller, who never had a losing year, told Bloomberg he decided to quit after having to miss a golf tournament in Scotland because of work. Hot-potato mortgages. Fannie Mae and Freddie...

A few businessmen like Gregory Mevs will decide how -- or whether -- Haiti recovers from one of the worst natural catastrophes in modern times....

Rise and shine, wipe the sleep from your eyes all of you lovely Los Angelenos, it's your morning Brand X news round-up for Jan. 29, 2010: Osama Bin Laden, global warming activist. Who knew Bin Laden was "green"? Blames U.S. and "Bush the son" for...

Media giant Viacom Inc.'s fourth-quarter operating income surged because of cost-cutting and because longtime earnings laggard Paramount Pictures turned a tidy profit. Results for the quarter ended Dec. 31 were buoyed by the over-the-moon box-office...

After the coffee. Before figuring out why you still have that MySpace account. Paramount delivers. How's this for a man-bites-dog story. Paramount Pictures, usually a drag on corporate parent Viacom's earnings, was a big driver in the media conglomerate's...