Wealthy candidates face money questions
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Two multimillionaires in the presidential race Â two ways to spend their money. Republican Mitt Romney has pumped more than $17 million of his own into his race; Democrat John Edwards, by law, can tap his fortune for no more than $50,000.
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Why the rich really do get richer -- and how to become one of them.
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Republican Mitt Romney, who surprised his presidential rivals last month with his one-day, $6.5 million haul, chased more cash Thursday as candidates faced the reality that dollars distinguish the legitimate hopefuls from the pretenders.
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The rich get richer. The Pritzker family could soon get tens of millions of dollars from a settlement involving the collapse of a bank it co-owned.
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Â· Super Tuesday may not be decisive for either party Â· Clinton seeks $10m more for post-February 5 drive
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Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton is playing hostess to billionaire Hollywood moguls, millionaire lawyers and  venture capitalists here this week as she pushes to raise a record sum for her presidential campaign.
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After months of campaigning,  millions of dollars spent and hundreds of speeches, Republican  presidential candidates are locked in a tight bunch with none  emerging as the clear-cut leader.
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The 2008 White House race is already the longest and most-expensive campaign in US history, and though the 17 candidates seem many, so are the paradoxes.
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The campaign fundraising figures reported by individual House and Senate candidates do not tell a complete or necessarily accurate story of the levels of campaign spending in their races. That is because outside playersÃ¢ÂÂ spending also is a major factor in virtually all of the most competitive races Ã¢ÂÂ including the money put in by the national partiesÃ¢ÂÂ campaign committees.
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Having millions doesn't mean you don't lose sleep. A look at what weighs on the wealthy.
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Candidates are seeking out wealthy Americans overseas, especially in financial centers like London and Hong Kong.
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Independent groups are using their financial muscle as never before to influence the presidential race.
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While on a tour highlighting poverty this week, Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards faced more questions about whether his focus on the issue was undermined by, among other things, his work at a hedge fund and his $6 million house. A closer look at his campaign finance reports reveals...
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Former New York mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani has continued to make paid speeches at a standard fee of $100,000 since forming his presidential exploratory committee last November, mixing personal business with campaigning in a way many of his rivals in the race cannot.
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WASHINGTON - Congressional tax writers are taking a hard look at elite US universities' multibillion-dollar endowment funds and considering steps to make them spend more of their riches to help students.
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Presidential candidates are scrambling to pad their bank accounts before the end of the third financial quarter on Sunday, loading up on cash for a big-spending three-month dash to the first votes in 2008.
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The removal of the president of California&#39;s largest public pension fund has raised questions about whether pension funds, endowments and other big activist investors can keep wielding clout in corporate governance campaigns.