Forbes: i 400 americani più ricchi

Bill Gates si riprende lo scettro di uomo più ricco, sebbene riguardo alla classifica che prende in considerazione gli americani.

Al primo posto in assoluto rimana il messicano Carlos Slim Helu, proprietario di 3 società di telecomunicazioni in America Latina

Questa la classifica dei 50 americani più ricchi sui 400 stilati da Forbes:

1 William Gates III 50,000 53 Medina Microsoft
2 Warren Buffett 40,000 79 Omaha Berkshire Hathaway
3 Lawrence Ellison 27,000 65 Redwood City Oracle
4 Christy Walton & family 21,500 54 Jackson Wal-Mart
5 Jim C. Walton 19,600 61 Bentonville Wal-Mart
6 Alice Walton 19,300 60 Fort Worth Wal-Mart
7 S. Robson Walton 19,000 65 Bentonville Wal-Mart
8 Michael Bloomberg 17,500 67 New York Bloomberg
9 Charles Koch 16,000 73 Wichita manufacturing, energy
9 David Koch 16,000 69 New York manufacturing, energy
11 Sergey Brin 15,300 36 Palo Alto Google
11 Larry Page 15,300 36 San Francisco Google
13 Michael Dell 14,500 44 Austin Dell
14 Steven Ballmer 13,300 53 Seattle Microsoft
15 George Soros 13,000 79 Westchester hedge funds
16 Donald Bren 12,000 77 Newport Beach real estate
17 Paul Allen 11,500 56 Mercer Island Microsoft, investments
17 Abigail Johnson 11,500 47 Boston Fidelity
19 Forrest Edward Mars 11,000 78 McLean candy, pet food
19 Jacqueline Mars 11,000 70 Bedminster candy, pet food
19 John Mars 11,000 73 Arlington candy, pet food
22 Carl Icahn 10,500 73 New York leveraged buyouts
23 Ronald Perelman 10,000 66 New York leveraged buyouts
24 George B. Kaiser 9,500 67 Tulsa oil & gas, banking
24 Philip Knight 9,500 71 Beaverton Nike
26 Sheldon Adelson 9,000 76 Las Vegas casinos, hotels
26 Anne Cox Chambers 9,000 89 Atlanta Cox Enterprises
28 Jeffrey Bezos 8,800 45 Seattle Amazon
29 James Simons 8,500 71 East Setauket hedge funds
30 Dan Duncan 8,000 76 Houston energy
30 Edward C. Johnson III 8,000 79 Boston Fidelity
32 Jack Crawford Taylor & family 7,000 87 St. Louis Enterprise Rent-A-Car
33 James Goodnight 6,800 66 Cary SAS Institute
33 John Paulson 6,800 53 New York hedge funds
35 John Kluge 6,500 95 Palm Beach Metromedia
36 Steven Cohen 6,400 53 Greenwich hedge funds
37 Philip Anschutz 6,000 69 Denver investments
37 Rupert Murdoch 6,000 78 New York News Corp
39 Harold Hamm 5,800 63 Oklahoma City Continental Resources
40 Pierre Omidyar 5,500 42 Honolulu Ebay
40 Eric Schmidt 5,500 54 Atherton Google
42 Eli Broad 5,400 76 Los Angeles investments
43 Steve Jobs 5,100 54 Palo Alto Apple Computer, Pixar
44 Len Blavatnik 5,000 52 London Access Industries
44 David Geffen 5,000 66 Malibu movies, music
44 Frederik Meijer & family 5,000 89 Grand Rapids supermarkets
44 John Menard 5,000 69 Eau Claire home improvement stores
44 Ira Rennert 5,000 75 New York investments
49 Charles Ergen 4,900 56 Denver EchoStar
50 Charles Schwab 4,700 72 Atherton discount stock brokerage