The world’s richest individuals can now shop and swipe in style with the new release of the JP Morgan Palladium credit card.

The card is made of palladium—a rare silvery metal that resembles platinum—and 23 karats of gold. The JP Palladium credit card itself is worth a whopping $1,000.

The JP Morgan Palladium credit card offers benefits and features unlike any other credit cards currently on the market.

Forbes magazine has released its annual Fictional 15, which ranks the richest characters from television, film, comics and books.

On top of the list is Scrooge McDuck, a billionaire bird known for storing a fortune in gold coins inside a massive Duckburg “money bin.”

With the price of gold up more than 30% year over year, the quacking Croesus’ net worth soared to $44.1 billion.

Richard Branson unveiled plans Tuesday to pilot a “flying” mini-submarine down to the furthest depths of the oceans, in his latest record-breaking adventure.

The Virgin Oceanic craft will try to reach the deepest points in each of the world’s five oceans, starting with the deepest of them all, in the western Pacific later this year.

“With space long ago reached by man, and commercial spaceflight tantalizingly close, the last great challenge for humans is to reach and explore the depths of our planet’s oceans,” said Branson.

Billionaire business magnate Donald Trump is ready to shell out $600 million of his own cash to become President.

He told ABC’s “Good Morning America” on Thursday that his name recognition would probably save him “hundreds of millions of dollars” compared with other candidates.

The 64-year-old, who held the interview aboard his private jet, said he’d announce his decision by June.

Carlos Slim Helu remained the world’s richest person, but Asia is where today’s big money is flowing, Forbes magazine said in its 2011 list of the world’s billionaires.

Slim, who is almost unknown to the general public outside Mexico, weighed in at a staggering $74 billion of net wealth thanks to his telecoms empire. Already the top dog last year, he increased his fortune by $20.5 billion dollars.

In a now familiar second place was Microsoft founder Bill Gates with $56 billion. The relatively lowly ranking reflected his enormous philanthropic give-aways over the year.

The New York Post picks up a Guardian report that embattled Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak could be the richest man in the world.

Worth about $70 billion, the Post says most of his money is stashed in foreign bank accounts and “shadowy real-estate holdings.”

That sum makes Mubarak more wealthy than Mexico’s Carlos Slim and Bill Gates, whose fortunes clock in at $53.5 billion and $53 billion, respectively.