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Posted: 2/24/2013 2:08:43 AM EST
Italian center-left coalition leader Pierluigi Bersani delivers his speech during a campaign rally in Rome, Friday, Feb. 22, 2013. Amid corruption scandals, rising populist sentiment and financial hardship, Italians are voting in a watershed parliamentary election Sunday and Monday seen as a test of their will to stay the course for painful economic reforms or revert to their free spending ways of the past. Silvio Berlusconi, a billionaire forced out of office by Italy's debt crisis, is seeking a political comeback promising Italians to give them back the real estate tax they paid as part of austerity measures enacted to salvage the economy. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
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Posted: 2/24/2013 2:08:43 AM EST
Italian center-left coalition leader Pierluigi Bersani delivers his speech during a campaign rally in Rome, Friday, Feb. 22, 2013. Amid corruption scandals, rising populist sentiment and financial hardship, Italians are voting in a watershed parliamentary election Sunday and Monday seen as a test of their will to stay the course for painful economic reforms or revert to their free spending ways of the past. Silvio Berlusconi, a billionaire forced out of office by Italy's debt crisis, is seeking a political comeback promising Italians to give them back the real estate tax they paid as part of austerity measures enacted to salvage the economy. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
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Posted: 2/22/2013 12:18:24 AM EST
In this Sept. 16, 2011 photo, media mogul Tsai Eng-meng smiles during a public event in Taipei, Taiwan. Appearing last year before Taiwanese regulators, billionaire media magnate Tsai appeared perplexed over a decision to fine his flagship newspaper for carrying camouflaged advertising on behalf of China's Communist government. Tsai, whose pro-China views have made him a lightning rod for criticism on this island of 23 million people, is on the verge of expanding his already substantial Taiwanese media empire through the acquisition of a 32 percent share in Next Media, currently owned by Jimmy Lai, an outspoken anti-communist reviled by Beijing. (AP Photo/Jameson Wu)
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Posted: 2/20/2013 4:02:28 PM EST
Billionaire investor George Soros of Soros Fund Management attends the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos January 26, 2013. REUTERS/Pascal Lauener
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Posted: 2/16/2013 6:13:20 AM EST
FILE - In this April 25, 2012 file photo provided by Crook Publicity, Australian billionaire Clive Palmer poses in front of an artist impression of the Titanic ll at MGM Studios in Los Angeles, Ca. The Australian billionaire who's planning to build a high-tech replica of the Titanic at a Chinese shipyard has received an "overwhelming" response from people who want to be the first paying passengers. Representatives for Clive Palmer, who in April announced a preliminary agreement with state-owned Chinese company CSC Jinling Shipyard to build Titanic II, said Saturday, Feb. 16, 2013 that his shipping company has received inquiries from people in the U.S., Britain, Asia and South America. (AP Photo/Crook Publicity, File) EDITORIAL USE ONLY
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Posted: 2/15/2013 10:30:21 AM EST
File photo of Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett smiling as he plays bridge with shareholders during their annual meeting in Omaha, Nebraska, May 4, 2008. REUTERS/Carlos Barria
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Posted: 2/14/2013 6:53:35 PM EST
H.J. Heinz Co. CEO William Johnson, speaks at a news conference at the world headquarters of the H.J. Heinz Co. on Thursday, Feb. 14, 2013, in Pittsburgh. Billionaire investor Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway and its partner on the deal. 3G Capital, is dipping into the ketchup business as part of a $23.3 billion deal to buy the Heinz ketchup company. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic)
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Posted: 2/14/2013 6:53:35 PM EST
A sign welcomes visitors in the reception area at the world headquarters of the H.J. Heinz Co. on Thursday, Feb. 14, 2013, in Pittsburgh. Billionaire investor Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway and its partner on the deal. 3G Capital, are dipping into the ketchup business as part of a $23.3 billion deal to buy the Heinz ketchup company. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic)
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Posted: 2/14/2013 6:53:35 PM EST
H.J. Heinz Co. CEO William Johnson, left, and 3G Capital Managing Partner Alex Behring shake hands after a news conference at the world headquarters of the H.J. Heinz Co. on Thursday, Feb. 14, 2013, in Pittsburgh. Billionaire investor Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway and its partner on the deal. 3G Capital, are dipping into the ketchup business as part of a $23.3 billion deal to buy the Heinz ketchup company. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic)
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Posted: 2/14/2013 6:53:35 PM EST
H.J. Heinz Co. CEO William Johnson, left, and 3G Capital Managing Partner Alex Behring speak at a news conference at the world headquarters of the H.J. Heinz Co. on Thursday, Feb. 14, 2013, in Pittsburgh. Billionaire investor Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway and its partner on the deal. 3G Capital, are dipping into the ketchup business as part of a $23.3 billion deal to buy the Heinz ketchup company. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic)
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Posted: 2/14/2013 5:53:22 PM EST
In this Nov. 19, 2012 photo Egyptian billionaire Nassef Sawiris, left, CEO of Cairo-based Orascom Construction Industries, Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Bill Northey, center, and Iowa Republican Gov. Terry Branstad sign their name in concrete during a groundbreaking ceremony for a fertilizer plant in Wever, Iowa. State and local officials promised Orascom $200 million in tax breaks to build the fertilizer plant in southeast Iowa without knowledge of a pending lawsuit alleging one of the company's subsidiaries defrauded U.S. taxpayers out of millions of dollars, officials told The Associated Press. (AP Photo/The Hawk Eye, Brenna Norman) MANDATORY CREDIT
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Posted: 2/14/2013 5:23:27 PM EST
H.J. Heinz Co. CEO William Johnson, is seen behind two bottles of Heinz ketchup as he speaks at a news conference at the world headquarters of the H.J. Heinz Co. on Thursday, Feb. 14, 2013, in Pittsburgh. Billionaire investor Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway and its partner on the deal. 3G Capital, are dipping into the ketchup business as part of a $23.3 billion deal to buy the Heinz ketchup company. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic)
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Posted: 2/14/2013 5:23:27 PM EST
Managing Partner of 3G Capital, Alex Behring speaks at a news conference at the world headquarters of the H.J. Heinz Co. on Thursday, Feb. 14, 2013, in Pittsburgh. Billionaire investor Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway and its partner on the deal. 3G Capital, are dipping into the ketchup business as part of a $23.3 billion deal to buy the Heinz ketchup company. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic)
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Posted: 2/14/2013 5:18:23 PM EST
FILE - In this Feb. 6, 2013 file photo, Secretary of State John Kerry whispers to his wife Teresa Heinz Kerry during the ceremonial swearing-in for him as the secretary of state, at the State Department in Washington. Kerry's family financial portfolio could grow by hundreds of thousands of dollars as a result of the $23 billion mega-deal between Nebraska billionaire Warren Buffett and a Brazil-owned investment firm to buy out ketchup and food producer H.J. Heinz Co. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)
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Posted: 2/14/2013 4:18:26 PM EST
Passers-by move along Penn Avenue past Heinz Hall in downtown Pittsburgh on Thursday, Feb. 14, 2013. In a deal announced on Thursday, billionaire Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway and another investment group, is acquiring the ketchup-fueled food conglomerate, H.J. Heinz Co. The Heinz name is all over Pittsburgh from where the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra performs here at Heinz Hall: the city's regional history museum is named for the ketchup patriarch's grandson, the late U.S. Sen. John Heinz. Heinz Memorial Chapel, the family's Gothic limestone gift to the University of Pittsburgh, and Heinz Field, where the Pittsburgh Steelers play their home games as well as many more. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic)
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Posted: 2/14/2013 3:16:09 PM EST
File photo of Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett smiling as he plays bridge with shareholders during their annual meeting in Omaha, Nebraska, May 4, 2008. REUTERS/Carlos Barria
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Posted: 2/14/2013 3:16:09 PM EST
File photo of Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett smiling as he plays bridge with shareholders during their annual meeting in Omaha, Nebraska, May 4, 2008. REUTERS/Carlos Barria
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Posted: 2/14/2013 10:56:19 AM EST
File photo of Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett smiling as he plays bridge with shareholders during their annual meeting in Omaha, Nebraska, May 4, 2008. REUTERS/Carlos Barria
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Posted: 2/14/2013 10:56:19 AM EST
File photo of Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett smiling as he plays bridge with shareholders during their annual meeting in Omaha, Nebraska, May 4, 2008. REUTERS/Carlos Barria
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Posted: 2/14/2013 10:53:29 AM EST
File photo of Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett smiling as he plays bridge with shareholders during their annual meeting in Omaha, Nebraska, May 4, 2008. REUTERS/Carlos Barria
