Whos the new richest person in the world?
How would you feel about making $19 billion in a year? That’s what Carlos Slim Helu did for the last six months of 2006 and the first six months of 2007. A Mexican financial magazine called “Sentido Comun,” or “Common Sense,” believes that the 67-year-old Mexican billionaire, who’s frequently referred to as Carlos Slim, is now the richest person in the world. The magazine estimates that Slim is worth $67.8 billion, whereas Bill Gates, the richest person in the world for more than a decade, is worth about $59 billion. How did this immigrant son (his father came to Mexico from Lebanon) become the “Warren Buffett of Latin America“? For one, he’s shown a knack for
