Forbes: world's billionaire capital

....and Bill Gates has probably given away more of his wealth than the rest of the top 100 combined!

 

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on a second note.. just wondering.. if there are any laws against this oil dudes.. raising the prices... we all know,there is still oil.. for it to rise to 104/106 is mad!!!

And the oil producers are enjoying themselves. when in some countries... ppl dont even have enough money to even afford GAS... hope there would be some law against them... something like what microsoft is always getting into trouble for!!..

I dont work for microsoft.. or have any dealing with them.. hehe.. but i am doing some work related to oil!

 

we need more ppl like Warren and Bill. who want to help humanity..

Peace.

 

Fun fact: while working at MCI/Verizon, I learned that Carlos Slim was the guy who sold his shares in MCI to Verizon for that merger to occur.

Also, his real name is Saleem, as he is of Lebanese descent.

~shahedc
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... this does not make any sense...

Really? Then why isn't everyone in the world rich?

umm ok... did you mean that it took them 2 years to get rich? Or that they've only been rich for the past 2 years?

I won't argue against your opinion, but surely you can't honestly believe that only 2 people fit the description of richest and "Ingeniously" ?

BTW, I did a search on Berezovskiy and found this:

Berezovskiy's Financial Dealings Examined.
http://home.swipnet.se/~w-10652/beremoney.html

An excerpt:
In conclusion, let me say that the Moscow correspondent of the solid Neues Zuricher Zeitung studied Boris Berezovskiy's life and career for a long time, and came to an interesting conclusion: "This is a man who, as no one else, represents a typical Moscow wheeler-dealer."

~shahedc
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I wonder if Bill and Warren ever give a $20 to the guy on the street corner wanting a 40oz?

 

He made about $700m in just a few months... not bad at all

 

Warren Buffett is now the world's richest person, with Carlos Slim at number 2.
Bill Gates has fallen to number 3 (oh no).

 

I bet Carlos Slim is pissed that he is not number one. Warren Buffet being number one was kind of a surprise to me.

 

Wow, Ikea guy is down to #7 now.

I wonder how long buffet will hold it if the market continues to drop.

 

No. They probably don't even know what a $20 bill is. Too small of a number for them to waste their time on.

 

If Sam Walton was still alive he would make these guys look like welfare mom's, he would be worth over $130 billion!

 

I don't mean to sound ignorant, but what exactly is there in Russia that allows folks to make so much money? Oil? Businesses the equivalent of our Microsoft, Verizon, and so forth?

 

Oil, telecommunications, construction, etc.

My co-worker's grandfather has some stem cell lab in Russia where they preserve umbilical chords that can be used later in life. I think the service is $10,000 a child and he does about $100 million in revenue a year. Lot of rich people I suppose...

 

LOL. Four Indians in the top ten and 2 in the top 5. That's awesome. Last year there was some news that Mukesh Ambani had a net worth of $63.5 Billion but I guess your assets fluctuate!

 

In one year.

Man, I'm sooo tired of people like you.
Economics 101 - If people didn't want it, the price would show that. The people that drive the price up are the bidders in the pits at NYMEX - and they are NOT going to bid it up unless they can sell it (at that price).

Also, as I have asked dozens of times, where were you when oil was 10/bbl and companies were shutting wells and laying off thousands of workers because nobody was buying oil ? And also, as I have disclosed on here, I mad A LOT of money when oil was 10/bbl because I KNEW it would not stay there. Didn't you ? And I don't apologize for it nor do I regret it, that's why we have a free market system, so ordinary chumps like me can do a little bit of research and make money.

 

Yeah, well, he's not.

If JD Rockefeller were still alive, he would own about 30% of the USA. And he'd be about 169 yrs old.
He was worth an estimated 318 BILLION.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most_wealthy_historical_figures

 

Yeah, Sam was a f'n genius. I'm gonna take over his company someday

 

And as I have answered dozens of times, I was at the gas station, pumping gas into my truck at the highest price that the oil company could gouge from the consumer. They never charge a penny less than they can possibly get away with. As before,....when have you ever seen a 30% OFF sign at a gas station? Never,....because they ALWAYS gouge the consumer for as much as they can possibly get away with.

 

Sam Walton died in 1992.........just a little different than JD.

 

Oil is that price now, because it is pegged to the American dollar which, as you know, is not doing that well right now. Investors also want a safer option to put their money, so they are investing in commodities.

 

Its called Tax Credit! Do you seriously think these people really care about other humans!? Bill is probably in the middle of a "Robot Project" that would compete with (and eventually take over) most of the human jobs that we know of!

 

I doubt their feet even touches the ground! I heard they were carried around in one of those "Cleopatra" thingy with the two poles and the guys carrying them on either sides....