from SLATE: > Forbes has released its 2010 list of the richest people in the > world..."Riding surging prices of his various telecom holdings, including > giant mobile outfit America Movil, Mexican tycoon Carlos Slim Helu has beaten > out Americans Bill Gates and Warren Buffett to become the wealthiest person > on earth." Slim, who is perhaps best known in the United States as a major > investor in the New York Times, is now worth over $53 billion; Gates and > Buffett are worth only slightly less. That's considerably more than the $3.5 > billion that the average billionaire in the world is worth, of which there > are now 1,011. "U.S. billionaires still dominate the ranks—but their grip is > slipping. Americans account for 40% of the world's billionaires, down from > 45% a year ago," Forbes reported. Most of the list's newest members are from > Asia.<
> Thursday, March 11, 2010 < [of course, a billion dollars won't buy what it used to.] -- Jim Devine / "Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti." (Go your own way and let people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
