Facebook catapults three 20-somethings onto the list, but the youngest isn’t who you think it is. The Facebook phenomenon strikes again, this time helping catapult two new 20-somethings into the ranks of America’s richest for the first time and bringing down the average age of America’s richest ever so slightly to 65.7. Only eight American [...]

The rich haven’t gotten richer–or poorer–this year. The price of admission to this, the 27th edition of The Forbes 400, is $1.3 billion for the second year in a row. The assembled net worth of America’s wealthiest rose by $30 billion–only 2%–to $1.57 trillion. Rising prices of oil and art paved the way for 31 [...]