Who is the richest man alive?
Posted on Jul 04 2007 at 8:04 AM in News A respected Mexican journalist says magnate Carlos Slim may have supplanted Gates as the world’s richest man, thanks to a healthy bump in the stock price for a mobile phone company Slim controls. According to the calculations by Eduardo Garcia, who runs a financial Web site called Sentido Comun (“Common Sense”), Slim’s worth climbed to $67.8 billion at the end of June. He calculated Microsoft Corp. founder Gates’ worth at $59 billion in June. In its annual list of the world’s billionaires, issued in March, Forbes magazine estimated Slim’s wealth at $49 billion, putting him in third place behind Gates, with $56 billion, and U.S. investor Warren Buffett, with $52 billion. In an April report on its Web site, Forbes bumped Slim up to No. 2, estimating that his companies’ worth had increased to just over $53 billion. Slim controls Mexico’s largest fixed-line telephone company, Telefonos de Mexico, or Telmex, and owns other businesses involved in ever
Forbes says Gates still richest man alive Mar. 10, 2006 at 8:30AM Bill Gates, worth an estimated $50 billion, has been tabbed the world’s richest person for the 12th consecutive year in Forbes’ rankings of the super-wealthy. Warren Buffett, worth $42 billion, is runner-up with Carlos Slim Helu ($30 billion), Ingvar Kamprad ($28 billion) and Lakshmi Mittal ($23.5 billion) rounding out the top five. In its inaugural ranking of the world’s richest people 20 years ago, Forbes said there were about 140 billionaires. This year a total of 793 people are considered billionaires. The last year another 102 people reached billionaire status, the magazine’s editors said. Forbes said the people on the list are worth a combined $2.6 trillion, 18 percent more than a year ago, and have and average net worth of $3.3 billion. http://www.washingtontimes.com/upi/20060310-080924-5637r.
