The richest person in the world-according to an article in The Virginian Pilot today-is one Carlos Slim, worth $ 74 billion. It doesn't seem right or just that in a nation as poor as Mexico also has the richest man in the world. This source also notes that Bill Gates is worth $ 56 billion but is giving alot of it away to charity, and Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook worth $ 13 billion. Forbes magazine provides this information and tells us that there are now 1210 billionaires in the world and their collective wealth is $ 4.5 trillion; that is 199 more than last year. I wonder if the Bush II tax cuts put any other Americans in that group?
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