Reports filed with the California Secretary of State show just 21 individuals contributed more than $1.6 million to Matt Mahan for Governor 2026 in the first two days of his campaign.

Compared with the calls for cat ladies, white dudes and others, the group of venture capitalists supporting the Vice President was small, at around 600.

One of the world’s richest regions has some of its starkest divides, with its top 10% of households holding two-thirds of its wealth, according to a new study of Santa Clara and San Mateo counties.

Congress outlawed tax deductions on “wash sales” in 1921, but Goldman Sachs and others have helped billionaires like Silicon Valley's Mark Zuckerberg, Brian Acton and Dustin Moskovitz see huge tax savings by selling stocks for a loss and then replacing them with nearly identical investments.