Finally it has happened, Microsoft’s Bill Gates who has been at the top of Forbes rich list for quite some time now has been knocked off from the top spot by Mexican Carlos Slim,worth an estimated $67.8 billion compared to Gates $59.2 billion.
Forbes magazine reported in April that Slim had overtaken billionaire investor Warren Buffett for the No. 2 spot in the world’s richest stakes but was still behind Gates.
Mexico has a huge rich-poor divide, with a tiny elite holding most of the country’s wealth and around half the population living on less than $5 a day.
I’m on that list too, just a few billion spot lower than Carlos Slim…. 
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January 24th, 2008 at 9:22 pm
i thought Bill Gate is still the richest man in the world