Thursday, March 06, 2008

BUFFETT WORLD'S RICHEST PERSON

Warren Buffett passed this good friend Bill Gates and Mexican telecom monopolist Carlos Slim Helu to become the world's richest person with $62 billion in wealth.

From Forbes:
The number 13 has long been considered unlucky by superstitious people around the globe. How fitting, then, that Bill Gates' reign as the world's richest person ends after his 13th year at the top.

Despite being worth $58 billion, $2 billion more than last year, Gates is now just the world's third-richest person, ceding the top spot ranking to his good friend and partner in philanthropy, Warren Buffett, whose net worth jumped $10 billion to $62 billion. (All stock prices and net worth valuations were locked in on Feb. 11.) Ranked No. 2 is Mexican telecom tycoon Carlos Slim HelĂș, whose fortune has doubled in just two years to $60 billion.

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