So many people are stupid with saying we have a new richest man. The media has run with it because they want to see Mr Gates #2. Gates doesn't want to be #1. He donates so much money every year. Besides this is the kicker right here:
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Due to exchange rates, stock valuations, and the overall impossibility of selling all shares at an equal price, the top three placeholders are statistically indistinguishable. A report by Mexican financial journalist Eduardo Garcia on July 3, 2007 indicated that Bill Gates' position as the wealthiest person in the world had been usurped by telecommunications magnate Carlos Slim Helú.[3] The following list uses numbers published by Forbes, which has not substantiated this claim, and still lists Slim as second.
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