The NEW richest man in the world...
 

Carlos Slim is the richest man in the world.

It has not been made public yet but the company he just purchased made him the richest man in the world.

You heard it here first :pimp

The mexican teleco guru?

Yeah he seems to own all technology in mexico!

well congratz then... :thumbsup

Go beaner, go beaner, it's your birthday, it's your birthday go beaner... go beaner!

you sure about that?

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having media and telecom monopoly in Mexico pays off...I wonder how much he paid in gifts and bribery for that.

He must have enough peso's to fill the white house walls as wallpaper....i dont think someone from Mexico can be the richest....its would be difficult to compete with US dollar or even Euro

here is the news about him being the second richest man in the world.


http://www.azcentral.com/business/ar...sslim0530.html

Yea, I heard about him, before he was on the second place

We heard it here first? Or we all heard it on TV a month ago?

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not sooo slim :winkwink:

Did it occur to you that being mexican doesn't prevent him from having his
fortune in other currencies than pesos? :winkwink:

good for him

Great link and read, thank you

Bah, and I bet you thought Bill Gate was the richest man just because Forbes and Fortune magazines said so:1orglaugh

How cool is that!!! Bill has held the title too long. is stock has been very stagnant.

Slim has business all over Latin America, including big markets like Argentina and Brazil. His money doesn't come only from Mexico, even if this market alone is extremely profitable.

Hmmmmmmm, ok!

he is my father

What company did he purchase?

then congrats to Carlos Slim :thumbsup

true :thumbsup

o 'rly????

heh, thats something i didnt know...

whooo hooo what do you think he will do with all that $$

It's funny how news/media puts $50B and them as richest people in the world.. When not one of them has $50B. We all know the media chooses who they talk about and feature, this is just one example... Plenty of people in the world have more than $50B - In Cash/Gold, ect.. But since they live in Middle East our news isn't going tell us Americans we aren't the richest.

What an interesting article to read really. In a country where forty percent of the people live in poverty, this man is buying up nearly all of Mexico - Hospitals, oil and gas stations, the telephone companies, power companies, department stores.......

From the article.....

"From the minute many Mexicans are born - perhaps in one of Slim's Star Médica Hospitals - they begin putting money in his pocket. They use electricity carried by Condumex brand cables, drive on roads paved by the CILSA construction company firm and burn fuels pumped from Swecomex drilling platforms. They communicate through Telmex phone lines, smoke Slim's tobacco, which is sold under the Marlboro brand, and shop at Sears Roebuck of Mexico, a subsidiary of his huge Carso Group. "

Who would have thunk it.

That's some serious power of the country and the people. The so called problem with emigration in the U.S. must be because we are talking to the Mexican Government when we should be talking to this guy.

I'm pretty sure he will use this $$ to make even more $$$ :winkwink:

I say he should spend it all on hookers and die a happy man :thumbsup

Interesting business model.

How is he possibly richer that any Oil Sheiks, that have been making billions for over 50 years?

yeah but that wealth is usually spread amongst the whole family which can include dozens of "princes". Not to mention those oil shieks dont generally report their actual wealth to forbes.

Believe you me .. as i am from the middle east, I do not buy into the propaganda :winkwink:

I know there are many people who are much wealthier but they don't have news articles about them so it does not make for a fun post LOL
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wow!!!!...well, congratulations to him...hope he would share it to me...

That is a pretty prejudiced statement when you get right down to it...

He is richest in wealth - that means dollars, pesos, euros and yes even salt...

Cheers for Carlos the slim . . .

good, now tell him to improve the Mexican economy

This is Cheech Marin.

he already does that by buying those companies and making money with it.
Though people pay for it he's providing people jobs and incomes and provided
services that the people need. Those people spend they're money which
makes other companies and people make money too, etc, etc. Yes he's
making money of it but that's not a bad thing, there's nobody who only
gives to charity if he didn't make money to be able to give away for charity.

people tend to forget that when they express their grief based on envy.
They don't tend to grasp how much rich people pay before they even
got to being rich. People should rather be happy for people that got
rich coz you know for sure they contributed a hell of a lot more to their
society than the poor. Yes the balance may not always be fair but you
can't blame the rich entirely for that, they just take advantages of the
possibilities presented and available to them.

They do have some influence to that but that's normal as that's what
they have paid for and makes sure they be able to keep paying for it
it's not money that comes out of the pockets of the people who haven't
contributed anything in the first place lol.

I'm quite sure he also gives back coz that's the only way he would ever
been able to get where he's now, nobody ever makes it that far by only
taking.....the only exception to that would be the IRS. :winkwink:

Why the hell did I even reply and wrote all this shit.....that's probably
the sign that tells me it's time to go to bed. :thumbsup

And the media has no way of knowing the personal fortune of some people.. wealthier than this guy...

I have the most valuable collection of dessicated dead cats!!!

Cool! Can we see your assets?

I may be interested in acquiring your collection if you are interested in selling.

damn he beat Bill Gates!!congrats to him and thanks man for a very nice info..:)

What did i tell you guys?

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