Bills Gates stays atop Forbes list of America’s richest

9:11 pm | Monday, September 16th, 2013

Bill Gates. AFP photo

NEW YORK — Microsoft Corp. co-founder Bill Gates is still America’s richest man, taking the top spot in the Forbes 400 list for the 20th straight year with a net worth of $72 billion.

Investor Warren Buffett, the head of Berkshire Hathaway Inc., remains in second place with $58.5 billion, while Oracle Corp. co-founder Larry Ellison stays third with $41 billion.

Brothers Charles and David Koch, co-owners of Koch Industries Inc., stay tied for fourth with $36 billion each.

Forbes says America’s super rich continued to increase their wealth over the past year, with the 400 people on the list posting a combined net worth of $2 trillion, up from $1.7 trillion a year ago.

That marks their highest combined value ever.

Forbes attributed the growth to strong stock and real estate markets.

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notmeitsthedog

The richest American in the world is Carlos Slim Helu from Mexico.
AP staff, .

UrHONOR

SIM is Mexican.

>>>Carlos Slim Helú is a Mexican business magnate, investor, and philanthropist. From 2010 to 2013, Slim was ranked as the richest person in the world, but that position has been regained by Bill Gates.<<<

notmeitsthedog

Mexican from Central America…
Wiki must be quoting bloomberg billionaires, forbes has Carlos Slim at #1 with 73B while bloomberg at #2 with 66.3B
UrHONOR

AS you like it.

King Kong

Bills Gates. Too many Bills.

http://www.businessinsider.com/the-art-of-war-sun-tzu-2011-5?op=1 Sun Tzu

LOL lupit naman mga editorS ng INQ

boboposter

lupit mo pre sa chinese grammar

ako sun tzu intsik beho peeling matalino abasa art of war pang hipster
http://www.businessinsider.com/the-art-of-war-sun-tzu-2011-5?op=1 Sun Tzu

sige hirit pa Mr. Douchebag hahaha
boboposter

sige salita pa hipster scum haha

Cue_Vas

And the rising gap between the rich and poor in the US continues.
Pretty soon, their middle class would be negligible, just like in Third World countries, if they don’t do anyting about it.

boboposter

Inggit nanaman si Juan Tamad! MAtulog ka na lang sa ilalim ng mangga Juan Tamad!

Cue_Vas

tama ka bobo ka

Laundryman

This is not accurate. Gates maybe the richest American, but he just placed second to Carlos Slim Helu [$73 Billion] in world ranking. Gates net worth as per Forbes 2013 list is $67 Billion, not $72 Billion as indicated in this report.