Only other American in top 10 is Bill Gates at 3rd place.
There are 4 people from India in the top 10 richest in world.
I believe they are all industrialists. Unbelievable!
Carlos slim, 2nd richest owns Mexican Telephone company Telmex shares.
Ingvar Kamprad of Sweden owns good part of IKEA.
Abigail Johnson of Fidelity Investments made the list.
So did Ballmer of Microsoft, Paul Allen and Michael Dell.
Other Americans are the Walton family and Google founders.
The 100 richest are worth a cool $2 Trillion aprox.
WOW!
My question is how is the market slide of recent affecting them,
and are they selling out their holdings??
http://en.wikipedia....of_billionaires
Edited by pdx5, 11 February 2009 - 05:31 AM.