With the election of a new French president this month, the wealthy in France are suddenly scrambling for places to stash their money for a while, including in the United States.

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Big Deal: Voting With Their Wallets

On May 19, 1992, as the presidential campaign season was heating up, Vice President Dan Quayle delivered a family-values speech that came to define him nearly as much as his spelling talents. Speaking at the Commonwealth Club of California, he chided Murphy Brown — the fictional 40-something, divorced news anchor played by Candice Bergen on a CBS sitcom — for her decision to have a child outside of marriage.  Read full article > >

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20 years later, it turns out Dan Quayle was right about Murphy Brown and unmarried moms

Conservative interest groups have dumped well over $20 million into congressional races so far this year, outspending their liberal opponents 4 to 1 and setting off a growing panic among Democrats struggling to regain the House and hold on to their slim majority in the Senate. More from PostPolitics : – Joe Ricketts, a wealthy donor, getting attention in presidential contest – Opinion: Want to end partisan politics? Here’s how – Track spending on TV ads Read full article > >

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Conservative groups outspending liberal counterparts 4 to 1 on congressional races

The authorities are eager to paint the fallen official Bo Xilai, whose family has a substantial fortune, as a rogue operator. But other officials’ relatives have also amassed vast wealth.

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‘Princelings’ in China Use Family Ties to Gain Riches

First it was Sheldon Adelson, a casino mogul who helped finance Newt Gingrich’s presidential ambitions. Then it was Foster Friess, a multimillionaire with the propensity for off-color jokes who threw his money behind Rick Santorum. Read full article > >

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Joe Ricketts, a wealthy donor, getting attention in presidential contest

The Committee to Save New York, an advocacy group, spent millions to advance Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo’s agenda last year, but most of the money came from a small number of wealthy donors.

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$12 Million to Help Cuomo Came From Just 20 Donors

Tackling Asia’s increasing wealth gap

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In pictures: Asia’s widening wealth gap

CARTAGENA, Colombia — Close your eyes, ignore the language difference, and you could be forgiven for thinking that the U.S. presidential campaign had come to this antique walled city on the Caribbean. Or, more accurately, that the U.S. presidential campaign had caught up with an economic debate that has roiled this region for decades — over the merits of national wealth, the role of government in alleviating poverty and the fate of the middle class. Read full article > >

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Obama finds U.S. campaign themes resonate at regional summit in Colombia

The first time Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala ever had to convince Barack Obama of anything was back in 2005. At the time, Obama was an ambitious young senator from Illinois with a keen interest in foreign affairs. Okonjo-Iweala was Nigeria’s blunt-speaking finance minister, traversing the globe to convince the world’s wealthiest nations that they should ease her country’s debt burden. Read full article > >

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Can Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala break America’s hold on the World Bank?

Ratings agency Standard & Poor’s reaffirms its AAA credit rating for the UK, saying it believes the economy is “wealthy, open and diversified”.

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S&P reaffirms UK top-notch rating

Some wealthy people donate to charities which do not “do a great deal of charitable work” in order to cut their tax bills, Downing Street says.

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No 10: Rich abuse charity giving

How the wealthy minimise their tax bill

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Most common tax avoidance schemes

Chancellor George Osborne says he is “shocked” that some of the UK’s wealthiest people organise their tax affairs so they pay very little.

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Osborne ‘shock’ at rich tax ploys

A middle-class writer for The Times found that tasting great wealth even temporarily leaves a permanent impression.

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DealBook: Living Like a Billionaire, if Only for a Day

NASA insisted Friday that it has dibs on rocket engines sitting deep on the Atlantic Ocean floor, a day after a wealthy adventurer announced the discovery of the prized pieces of space history.

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NASA: We own engines Bezos found