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Bill Gates still richest person in U.S., says Forbes
NEW YORK — Bill Gates remains the richest person in the United States with a fortune of $66 billion in 2012, up 10 percent from last year, Forbes magazine said Wednesday. Behind the Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist come investment guru Warren Buffett with $46 billion, then Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison…
Forbes names Merkel and Clinton world’s most powerful women
German Chancellor Angela Merkel and US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton are the world’s most powerful women, according to Forbes magazine’s annual survey. Following the two stateswomen in the 2012 rankings was Brazil’s President Dilma Rousseff. The list covers women in fields as diverse as politics, business, media, entertainment and…
A Climate Of Fear Has Seized Our Billionaires
According to Forbes Magazine, there is but one voice in the lonely wilderness of insanely rich white men, one voice ringing out above the clattering din of fearful mumbling in our nation’s boardrooms and lobbies of our nation’s best proctologists: Clifford Asness. “I run an approximately $20 billion dollar money…
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