Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="lkdood" data-source="post: 6961319" data-attributes="member: 92282"><img src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fc/Flag_of_Mexico.svg/125px-Flag_of_Mexico.svg.png" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /><img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_lEYmT15i6ew/RrfqodroQdI/AAAAAAAAAB4/eQm0siEZxPU/s400/carlos_slim.03.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />Mexican telecom tycoon Carlos Slim is the first man from a developing  nation to become the world's richest person — a shift that underlines  the loosening of America and Europe's stranglehold on the top spots in  the billionaires' club.Slim's arrival at the top aroused both  pride and anger in Mexico, where many see his fantastic wealth in a  poverty-afflicted nation as a sign of what ails it. With a  recovery in the value of his cell phone holdings pushing his estimated  fortune to $53.5 billion, Slim jumped past Microsoft founder Bill Gates  and investor Warren Buffett when Forbes magazine released its 2010 list  of the world's wealthiest Wednesday.The rise of Slim, the  70-year-old son of an immigrant shopkeeper, is just a part of the  emergence of billionaires in developing countries, Forbes reporter Keren  Blankfeld said. She noted this year's top 10 richest also include two  billionaires from India and one from Brazil."They're kind of  spread. It's a nice spread," Blankfeld said of the list, which had long  been dominated by Americans and Europeans.The full list showed  Taiwan tripling its number of billionaires to 18, Turkey more than  doubling to 28, and Brazil increasing by 50 percent to 18. Russia also  rebounded, almost doubling its number of billionaires to 62 after stock  markets there recovered from severe setbacks.Still, it is hardly  time to mark the passing of U.S. dominance: The number American  billionaires rose by more than 40 to 403. That is more than six times  second-place China with 64 billionaires.     <a href="http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5grsYhLnmUsX0Fp4aEoqAXF2Mwd3QD9ECDB880" target="_blank">AP</a></blockquote>

Verification: Payakata winadi keeyak tibeda?

Top Bottom