Comments on: Bill Gates overtaken as world's richest?

A Mexican financial Web site says that, with an estimated net worth of more than $67 billion, tycoon Carlos Slim has overtaken the Microsoft chairman as the world's richest man.

[carlyle27]

Guardian

Guardian is NOT a Mexican newspaper. It is British.

[Christopher Hall]

Fun with adjectives!

[i]The Guardian, [b]a Mexican online financial Web site,[/b] estimates that tycoon Carlos Slim has a net worth of $67 billion, which would place his fortune above that of the Microsoft chairman. Slim is known for a wide swath of holdings including banking interests, CompUSA and telecommunications firms.[/i]

In case they edit the passage, I think it's important we immortalize it here for the sake of comedy.

[chiefhopper]

Guardian the Web SIte

Note that the start of the first paragraph says web site not newspaper. To quote:

The Guardian, a Mexican online financial Web site, estimate

[System Tyrant]

Gaurdian source

"Now, thanks to a surge in the shares of his America Movil group, Mr Slim has claimed pole position, according to the Mexican online financial publication, Sentido Común."

Reference: http://business.guardian.co.uk/story/0,,2117330,00.html

[ifiredmyboss.com]

Does it count CompUSA as having any Value?

Does it count CompUSA as having any value?
I'd be surprised if they still had a retail store front in the US in a year or two. They are stuck in a tough market.

[nanotech]

Govt Sponsored Monopoly

He has a (or atleast had last time I checked) a government sponsored telephone landline monopoly in Mexico....that's how he got his first millions and his billions.

Even if we say Gates had (and maybe still has) a monopoly, atleast he made it for himself and the govt didn't grant him the right to sell such a basic NECESSITY like telephone lines and make huge profits off of it from poor people.

[ferretboy88]

Bill Gates doesn't care at all. he donates money

Bill Gates has donated so much money its crazy to even think about
it. He doesn't give a rats tail if hes the riches or whatever. if he
want to stay the richest he would have never donated billions to
poor kids.

[GuRu84]

Agreed.

Well said!

[BJBubbaJones]

Either bull or Gates just donates a lot

Microsoft is worth more than what people think. Gates has also donated a percentage of his income to many things which I'm sure Slim (whom I've never heard of before) is just taking as much in as he can.