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!
[Image via WENN.]
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