The Sun reports a 5 point poll drop for the Conservatives which gives Labour a general election winning lead, were ballot held today. The short term cause of this is the banker and private sector/wealth creation bashing that master RedEd Miliband has been engaging in. You see he's getting the credit because instead of standing against him the Conservatives have tried to pretend they agree. Th...

Michael Farmer, a wealthy hedge fund tycoon, has been appointed as co-treasurer to the Conservative party, replacing Lord Fink

James Cameron and other wealthy Hollywooders are wrong if they think they can carry on bossing Brazil about.

Unemployment is falling in the US, where wealth-creators are applauded, rather than denounced, writes Boris Johnson.

Wealthy business leaders have donated millions to Republican campaigners working to beat Barack Obama in the 2012 election, largely through new fundraising vehicles

WTF? An early day motion calling for the US government to slap the wrist of one of it’s talkshow hosts made a throw-away joke that featured the Sikh Golden Temple. BenSix reports… Johnny Carson’s unfunny protege made a joke about Mitt Romney’s wealth a few days ago, which involved suggesting that the Sikh Golden Temple

Today the TaxPayers’ Alliance has released new research which shows that the average family pays £656,000 in taxes over their lifetime. That tax payment is around and about equal to the amount which, if saved over the years, would put said household into the top 10% in terms of wealth (850k in net assets). And

Third, poll after poll shows overwhelming public support for a tax on bankers’ bonuses; a mansion tax on multimillion-pound properties; a windfall levy on the oil and utility companies; a Robin Hood tax on financial transactions; and a one-off wealth tax of 20% on the richest 10% of households (which would raise a whopping £800bn

It's Henry Tudor's Birthday!! Or would be, if he had possessed a sort of rarefied human longevity that matched his legendary wealth. The man who founded England's most famous and popular dynasty, the all-conquering Tudors, was born on this day in 1457. His mysterious, secretive personality, grasping acquisitiveness, extraordinarily canny political nouse and ceaseless intelligence gathering secured...

Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich clashed angrily in a fiery campaign debate, feeding off attacks on each other over immigration and their personal wealth