He is the booming voice of the Occupy protests, encouraging activists to continue their battle against the wealthy one per cent of Americans.

But it seems left-wing documentary maker Michael Moore has been uncharacteristically quiet about one thing: his own wealth.

While Moore has denied he is among the top-earners in the country, tax records show he owns an extensive property in one of the country’s most elite communities.

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Stephen heads to Wall Street to gain the trust of Occupy Wall Street protesters and take over the movement.

The men and women on our annual Celebrity 100 list--the most powerful people in the entertainment business this year--earned $4.5 billion over the last 12 months by starring in films, playing basketball, walking the catwalk and more.

"These days, it's common to see most of the costliest and luxurious cars zooming past without much fuss! With the number of millionaires and billionaires mushrooming rapidly from every corner of the world, its isn't a big thing to drive most coveted brands like Mercedes, Bentley, Bugatti Veyron or the kinds. However pimping the vehicles with gold, diamond and swarovski does help to exhibit your excess wealth on the roads

"Christmas came in extravagant fashion to the Muslim desert emirate of Abu Dhabi as a glitzy hotel unveiled a bejewelled Christmas tree valued at more than 11 million dollars on Wednesday.

It is the "most expensive Christmas tree ever," with a "value of over 11 million dollars," said Hans Olbertz, general manager of Emirates Palace hotel, at its inauguration.

"At only 26 years of age, Mark Zuckerberg is one of the world's youngest billionaires, but he's not keeping it all for himself. By signing onto Bill Gates and Warren Buffet's initiative called the "Giving Pledge," Mark agreed to give most of his wealth to charity.

Lots of interesting facts about the world's largest country.

"A highly trained force of femmes fatales--experts in stealth, precision and persuasion--circle the globe, moving with equal ease through border crossings and society balls. Their mission: to execute the wishes of an exclusive group of the wealthy and powerful.

One night they're scaling security fences and disabling alarms. The next morning they're cooking a gourmet brunch. It's Charlie's Angels meets Miss Moneypenny: The Concierge girls fulfill every request, no matter how mundane or extravagant.

"Expensive Halloween costumes are recession-proof. How else could certain hedge fund managers and health insurance company CEOs wow their respective Halloween parties?

When we nosed around for 2010′s most expensive Halloween costumes, we found that the quality of your costume is not necessarily related to the quantity of money you spend. But if you insist on lightening your dollar load, here they are:"

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"You ever see a new product and immediately think "I could have thought of that?" and then repeatedly kick yourself for the rest of the day for not being a gazillionaire? Yes yes, we've all been there. And we're right. We could have been gazillionaires. All of us. Yet for some reason we didn't patent our "pizza scissors" or "remote control bottle opener." Like fools! Anyway, the people behind these products have. And now they're just rubbing it in our faces while we're not sleeping on a pile of money."

(Opinion):

"Enough! Blubbering, bawling mega boob Lindsay Lohan doesn't deserve a speck of your sympathy or support, nor a dollop of respect. What Linz desperately needs is a swift kick in the teeth, a foot in the backside and a broom with which to clean up her many messes, which I would not touch with a full-body condom.

Now that the warmer weather is upon us, here are a few suggestions for a purchase that should provide hours of enjoyment! :-)

"For the third time in three years, the world has a new richest man.

"Riding surging prices of his various telecom holdings, including giant mobile outfit America Movil ( AMX - news - people ), Mexican tycoon Carlos Slim Helu has beaten out Americans Bill Gates and Warren Buffett to become the wealthiest person on earth and nab the top spot on the 2010 Forbes list of the World's Billionaires.

"Money can't buy you happiness,
but it can buy you a lot of fun toys"

"Saving for a rainy day but feeling like you can't get ahead of the storm? You're not alone. These 13 tips can help you get your financial umbrella ready."

"An interesting bit of history reveals that Mr. J.P. Morgan, yes, THE Mr. Morgan, mega-financial tycoon, was quoted as saying, "Millionaires don't use Astrology, billionaires do!"

"Welcome to Gemini 14 on 14th Street near the West Village, home to the city's most expensive hair extensions — which cost $10,000 a pop. Irwin has hers put in three times a year. Add to that her color sessions every six weeks at about $300 per appointment and $65 blowouts twice a week and she's forking out roughly $47,000 a year to achieve her Rapunzel-like mane (including tips). In short, what most of us would pay for a car, Irwin blows on her crowning glory — every year.

"For those who value their freedom of expression as much as health, wealth, and prosperity, then Finland is the place to be, with an index ranking the Nordic nation the best in the world.

"The skies lit up over Jenin last month, and it wasn't tracer bullets or flash bombs but celebratory fireworks, set off to mark the occasion of the opening of Hirbawi Home Center, a new luxury establishment on the city's outskirts.

The five-story building near the Jalame checkpoint cost $5 million to build, says its owner, and it is filled with deluxe, foreign-made products seen mostly in the pages of newspaper supplements.

"Cue the outrage. For months, the Obama administration and members of Congress have known that insurance giant AIG was getting ready to pay huge bonuses while living off government bailouts. It wasn't until the money was flowing and news was trickling out to the public that official Washington rose up in anger and vowed to yank the money back.

" A Palestinian tycoon has created a tranquil paradise on a Holy Land mountaintop, with a replica of a famous Renaissance villa, sculpted gardens and a wrought-iron pavilion that once belonged to a nephew of Napoleon Bonaparte.

"While other well-off Palestinians have built large, ornate villas, Masri's manor is unrivaled in the West Bank because of its Renaissance design and the sprawling estate it sits on."

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"Hard as it is to conceive of Michael Jackson being broke, the fact is that the global music icon is in severe debt.

The Wall Street Journal quotes sources as saying that MJ's cash reserves ran so low earlier this year that he worried about paying his electric bills. "

"Soon we will see Arab world rulers boarding private jets and traveling to their colleagues' lavish palaces for the Iftar – the evening meal that breaks the daily fast during Ramadan. Mubarak will hop over to Saudi Arabia, Jordan's King Abdullah will travel to the Emirates, Iraq's president will also make his way to the Persian Gulf, and the Lebanese leadership will travel to Dubai. This is the source of the money; this is where high politics is being converted to dollars. Interests vis-à-vis charity.

Regular Joes in the Arab world will be able to see the hugs on the red carpet, but the lavish feasts are not to be photographed. This year, more than ever, the sight of tables packed with delicacies and servants wearing white gloves could start a fire among the hundreds of millions of hungry Arabs.

"Still, the Arab world does have a better handle on what is going on between Hamas and Fatah, even if they are doing nothing about it--actually, that may be the best sign that they actually do understand the situation. Unlike the West, they are in no hurry to pour their money and resources into a bottomless pit.

"In 2002, when oil prices were hovering around $21 a barrel, nearly two dozen Arab nations joined to pledge yearly contributions of $660 million to support the Palestinian Authority's annual budget. Now, even with oil prices more than six times higher and the Palestinian Authority bordering on financial ruin, only a handful of Arab countries are sending even a small portion of the money they promised, according to data examined by The Washington Post.

Can you guess whose house this is?

"Here's where your $$$ go..."

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"Amazing, Exotic and Remote Luxury Retreats

"Nita Ambani was no ordinary tourist. She is married to Mukesh Ambani, head of Mumbai-based petrochemical giant Reliance Industries, and the fifth richest man in the world. (Lakshmi Mittal, ranked fourth, is an Indian citizen, but a resident of the U.K.)

More from Forbes.com:

• In Pictures: Inside the World's First Billion-Dollar Home

• In Pictures: Homes of the Billionaires

• In Pictures: World's Most Expensive Homes 2007

Forbes estimated Ambani's net worth at $43 billion in March. Reliance Industries was founded by Mukesh's father, Dhirubhai Ambani, in 1966, and is India's most valuable firm by market capitalization. The couple, who have three children, currently live in a 22-story Mumbai tower that the family has spent years remodeling to meet its needs.

Rothkopf announces that he and his researchers have identified "just over 6,000" people who match his definition of the superclass -- that is, who have met complicated (and vaguely explained) metrics designed to determine "the ability to regularly influence the lives of millions  …

''Despite being worth C$57.2-billion, C$1.97-billion more than last year, Mr. Gates is now just the world's third-richest person, ceding the top spot ranking to his good friend and partner in philanthropy, Warren Buffett, whose net worth jumped C$9.86 billion to C$61.15-billion. (All stock prices and net worth valuations were locked in on Feb. 11.) Ranked No. 2 is Mexican telecom tycoon Carlos Slim Helú, whose fortune has doubled in just two years to C$59.18-billion.

With a breakdown of the list by country...industry...etc.

Suha Arafat, the widow of former Palestinian Authority chairman Yasser Arafat, has been stripped of her Tunisian citizenship and was asked to leave Tunisia together with her 12-year-old daughter, Zahwa, Palestinian sources in Ramallah said on Monday.

Suha moved to Tunis shortly after her husband's death in November 2004. Before that, she and her daughter had been living in Paris for nearly a decade.

Suha is believed to have struck a deal with Arafat's successors according to which she will receive about $22 million a year.

Note: This article was written some time ago-- but it provides some excellent insight as to why, despite having been the highest recipient per capita, of economic aid in the world-- the Palestinians continue to live in poverty.

Excerpts:

Yasser Arafat diverted nearly $1 billion in public funds to insure his political survival, but a lot more is unaccounted for.

So far, Prince's team has determined that part of the Palestinian leader's wealth was in a secret portfolio worth close to $1 billion -- with investments in companies like a Coca-Cola bottling plant in Ramallah, a Tunisian cell phone company and venture capital funds in the U.S. and the Cayman Islands.

Although the money for the portfolio came from public funds like Palestinian taxes, virtually none of it was used for the Palestinian people; it was all controlled by Arafat. And, Prince says, none of these dealings were made public.

Of all the monopolies, none was as lucrative or as corrupt as the General Petroleum Corporation, the one for gasoline. The corporation took the fuel it purchased from an Israeli company and watered it down with kerosene, not only defrauding the Palestinian drivers, but wrecking their car engines.

There's yet another stash of money Arafat might be asked about: the funds he collected when he was chairman of the PLO in exile. The PLO's former treasurer told us he saw Saddam Hussein hand Arafat a $50 million check for supporting him during the first Gulf War. And there were other large gifts from the KGB and the Saudis.

Our whole point is to bring it out of control of any one person," Prince says.

Palestinians certainly paid dearly for something else Fayyad uncovered: a system of monopolies in commodities -- like flour and cement -- that Arafat handed out to his cronies, who then turned around and fleeced the public.

Fayyad says it could accurately be seen as gouging his own people. "And especially in Gaza which is poorer, which is something that is totally unacceptable and immoral, actually."

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No, that's not a typo-- Arafat wasn't worth millions-- it was more like billions.

However, unlike Saddam's ill-gotten gains that went into showy palaces throughout Iraq, Arafat had been cleverly concealing his billions from the Palestinian people...so they regarded him as a hero 'till the end.