I was surprised to find that the richest man in the world according to Forbes World’s Billionaires had so much money. Carlos Slim Helu is worth an estimated $53.5 billion dollars. He is now the richest man in the world. Bill Gates of Microsoft fame is worth $53 billion and Warren Buffett comes in third with $47 billion dollars.
There is also good news for a number of billionaires this year. It seems that many of them had a pretty good year and the average wealth of billionaires is up. Asia’s made a big jump in the number of billionaires they had over last year and are coming on strong. Russia has 62 billionaires. It must sure be nice!