Are there U.S. minority billionaires, or anyone close?
forbes_guest: There are some Asian American U.S. billionaires–Jerry Yang of Yahoo!, for example. Also, there are some U.S. billionaires that were born elsewhere: Sanjiv Sidhu of i2 Technologies was born in India. thirdeyefan asks: Did any of the billionaires make their money off of the commodities market? forbes_guest: Yes, but not many. The Andre family from Switzerland has a commodities trading house. Also, the Cargill family, which regularly appears on the Forbes 400 under the family fortune list, owns a huge commodity trading operation. im_number6 asks: How do you count them…I mean, how can you be so sure that they have that much? forbes_guest: To the extent possible, we rely on public documents filed with authorities or regulators like the SEC. Using those documents, we determine what the stock ownership is in publicly traded companies by each billionaire. Then we multiply the number of shares the billionaire owns by the stock price on a given day. This year we used stock price
