Bill Gates Victimized By Crap Turn of Economy - No Longer America's Richest Man!
Ouch!
Kiss that 15-year record buh to the bye.
Bill Gates is no longer the richest man in America! He'll now need to settle for the #2 position on the Forbes magazine richest person list.
Forbes was forced to recalculate and reorder its list of the richest 400 Americans destined for the October 27th issue because of all the crazy stuff that happened in the financial markets these last two and a half months.
According to Bloomberg, Gates has lost $1.5 BILLION dollars in that period.
His new net worth is (a not too paltry) $55.5 billion.
The Wizard of Omaha, Warren Buffett is now #1. He is worth $58 billion.
By some miracle, Warren's net worth has actually gone UP by about $8 billion in the last few months!!!!!!!!!
That fucker!
Buffet (who is also an Obama supporter) is hailed as a stock picking genius as he turned $9,800 saved from delivering papers into a multi-billion dollar empire.
In the most recent presidential debate, both Obama and McCain said Mr. Buffet may be the brain who can help lead the U.S. out of economic crisis.
Las Vegas hotelier Sheldon Adelson, of the Sands Corp, suffered the steepest drop in net worth. So far, he's lost $4 billion!
Billionaires bleed big!
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Oh poor Billy!
where did the entry about Angelina go??
raise a glass and a lit up mac screen for our fallen hero….?
rob
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Who?
boo fucking hoo!
fresh!
I hate you guys. Gosh I wanna be First for once!!!!!
Anyways. I don't think he should care being the second richest he's still rich packed with billions.
All I want is $200,000 please. Having that much I would feel rich haha
Perez this shit is so boring!
Here's some math for you. It would take a person earning $100K a year 500000 years to make as much as Gates is worth. Someone please tell me my math is wrong because I'm thinking about just going home for the day….
BOO!
I'd take number two. No problem being the second richest person in the world!
"that fucker" LOL!!!!!!!!!
"That Fucker!!"
aaaaand THAT is why i love Perez
besos xoxo
Re: LettyB – So what do you want to talk about?
Miracle?? He was majority stock holder at Anheuser Busch and sold out when
InBev gave there first offer of $60 a share. That's why his net worth has increased so much in the past few months. Thank you Warren Buffet for sending one of our few remaining Fortune 500 companies over seas! I hope you enjoy your billions.
Don't you wish they would BLEED BIG for the LITTLE PEOPLE?
*sigh*
wow # 2 richest, how depressing..gimme a break
Re: sweetgirl – I'd be down for $10,000. That would cover my student loan and rent for a year…with some left over!
Re: Big Black Dick – HEY I THOUGHT YOU LEFT!
i think i'll cry now
The collapse of Lehman Brothers can be blamed on
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac,
the two big mortgage banks that the Feds
recently bailed out with big bucks.
They used huge lobbying budgets and political
contributions to keep regulatorsoff their backs.
According to the Center for Responsive Politics,
the top three U.S. senators getting big Fannie
and Freddie political bucks were Democrats,
and
No. 2 was Sen. Barack Obama,
who as Fox noted had only been in the Senate
four years but still managed to grab that No. 2 spot
ahead of longtime colleagues John Kerry and Chris Dodd,
the chairman of the Senate Banking Committee.
Re: RashManly – Explain - in logical terms - how you are trying to hang this on Obama — it has been a fucking Republican President and cabinet for 8 years, and a fucking Republican Congress for 10 of the past 12 years.
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but you are saying Obama was somehow powerful and influential enough to overtake all of them? How ridiculous.
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No. This can only be blamed on the long-time Republican leadership we have had - and those who voted the same into office. Its the voters who are ultimate the ones to be blamed.
Maybe Warren Buffet should be President?
Re: sweetpiece – Actually Mr. Gates is the third richest man in the world. Second is Mexican telecom mogul Carlos Slim Helú .
Follow the money.
If Republicans were
smart enough to bust out
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac,
why did the Democrats end up
with all the big money?
I could handle that! All you need is a few millions anyway! They laugh at that loss. Called tax write-off!
Re: Cecilie – third even fourth and I'd pay my taxes too no problem!
Re: sweetpiece – Can`t fault you for that ;-P
Bill Gates always gave a lot to charity. He gave more to malaria research than WHO. It's pretty much okay if a person like him is freakin rich. Furthermore he worked his way up. He started software engineering in a garage.
Poor "innocent" billionares.