Forbes' List Has New Names; Gates No. 1

Edited to add that this story hit the wire at just about the same time (to the minute) that voting started on the bankruptcy bill.
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Walmart workers, prepare for a wage and benefits cut...your mistresses were knocked down a couple of pegs.

Glad to see that trickle up is working so well.

:puke:

market share... after all Ikea (far better service and product and they treat their workers failrly, notice did not say well) knocked them out. This is not good....

if yuo are a heir to the Walton fortune that is.

By the way, 2.2 trillion... this is what leads to revolutions, the concentration of wealth in so few hands.

the rich ARE getting richer and the poor ARE getting poorer. Isn't capitalism great?

I really feel for those poor Walton family members though. I guess if people like US wouldn't boycott, would buy MORE of their fabulous products at rock bottom prices, they wouldn't have to eke out a living like they're doing now. I fell so ashamed. :cry:

Beautiful! :7

Bill Gates, $46 billion. If he stuck that money in a bank and made even just 1% interest on it, he'd still make $460,000,000 per year in interest. That's over $1 million per day, like hitting the lotto every single day for the rest of your life.

Even if he spent his entire life trying to figure out stuff to spend the money on, he could never find $46 billion worth of stuff that would actually be of any use to him.

Jebus he could give every man, woman and child in the US $150 and still have a billion dollars.

Actually he contributes a lot to charities. The foundation is very involved in vaccinating children in Africa. True, he still has a lot of money but has also given a lot away. More than we can say about the Bush family.

catching these folks may take a while!

I gave up on the first one.

The ranking of the world's richest people as estimated by Forbes magazine. Listings include rank, name, home country or state, age where known, wealth in billions of dollars and source of the money.

Listings where the home country is United States are for American citizens living abroad.

1. William Gates III, Washington, 49, $46.5. Warren Buffett, Nebraska, 74, $44, Berkshire Hathaway 3. Lakshmi Mittal, India, 54, $25, steel 4. Carlos Slim Helu, Mexico, 65, $23.8, telecom 5. Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Alsaud, Saudi Arabia, 48, $23.7, investments 6. Ingvar Kamprad, Sweden, 78, $23, Ikea 7. Paul Allen, Washington, 52, $21, Microsoft, investments 8. Karl Albrecht, Germany, 85, $18.5, supermarkets 9. Lawrence Ellison, California, 60, $18.4, Oracle 10. S. Robson Walton, Arkansas, 61, $18.3, Wal-Mart 11. Jim Walton, Arkansas, 57, $18.2, Wal-Mart 11. John Walton, Arkansas, 59, $18.2, Wal-Mart 13. Alice Walton, Texas, 56, $18, Wal-Mart 13. Helen Walton, Arkansas, 85, $18, Wal-Mart 15. Kenneth Thomson and family, Canada, 81, $17.9, publishing 16. Liliane Bettencourt, France, 82, $17.2, L'Oreal 17. Bernard Arnault, France, 56, $17, LVMH 18. Michael Dell, Texas, 40, $16, Dell 19. Sheldon Adelson, Nevada, 71, $15.6, casinos, hotels 20. Theo Albrecht, Germany, 83, $15.5, supermarkets 21. Roman Abramovich, Russia, 38, $13.3, oil 22. Li Ka-shing, Hong Kong, 76, $13, diversified 23. Amancio Ortega, Spain, 69, $12.6, Zara 24. Steven Ballmer, Washington, 49, $12.1, Microsoft 25. Silvio Berlusconi, Italy, 68, $12, media 25. Abigail Johnson, Massachusetts, 43, $12, Fidelity 27. Barbara Cox Anthony, Hawaii, 81, $11.7, Cox Enterprises 27. Anne Cox Chambers, Georgia, 85, $11.7, Cox Enterprises 29. Stefan Persson, Sweden, 57, $11.2, Hennes & Mauritz 30. John Kluge, Florida, 90, $11, Metromedia 31. Raymond, Thomas and Walter Kwok, Hong Kong, no age given, $10.9, real estate 32. Forrest Mars Jr., Virginia, 73, $10.4, candy 32. Jacqueline Mars, New Jersey, 65, $10.4, candy 32. John Mars, Virginia, 68, $10.4, candy 35. Luciano Benetton and family, Italy, 69, $9.9, Benetton 35. Pierre Omidyar, Nevada, 37, $9.9, Ebay 35. Galen Weston and family, Canada, 64, $9.9, retail 38. Lee Shau Kee, Hong Kong, 77, $9.3, real estate 38. Azim Premji, India, 59, $9.3, software 40. Nasser Al-Kharafi and family, Kuwait, 61, $9, construction 41. Kirk Kerkorian, California, 87, $8.9, investments, casinos 42. Sumner Redstone, California, 81, $8.8 Viacom 43. Leonardo Del Vecchio, Italy, 69, $8.5, eyewear 43. Michele Ferrero and family, Italy, 78, $8.5, chocolates 45. Michael Otto and family, Germany, 61, $8.3, retail 46. Susanne Klatten, Germany, 43, $8.2, BMW 46. Philip Knight, Oregon, 67, $8.2, Nike 46. Hans Rausing, Sweden, 79, $8.2, packaging 49. Serge Dassault and family, France, 80, $7.8, aviation 49. Carl Icahn, New York, 69, $7.8, leveraged buyouts 49. Keith Rupert Murdoch, New York, 74, $7.8, News Corp.

The remainder of the list of 620 billionaires:
http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/business/article/0,1299,DRMN_4_3610985,00.html

Damn thing oughta say "Daddy".
Suzanne Klatten at #46? She didn't make the first BMW.
All the silver-spooners on the list should be identified as such.