Bill Gates reclaims 'world's richest person' title with $76B
Found on CNet News on Tuesday, 04 March 2014
Forbes released its annual rankings for the world's richest people on Monday showing that Gates overtook telecom mogul Carlos Slim for the first time in four years. Gates' current net worth is $76 billion, up from $67 billion last year, while Slim's fortune fell from $73 billion to $72 billion. The Microsoft chairman has held the No. 1 spot for 15 of the last 20 years.
While Gates has a $76 billion fortune, he has donated more than $28 billion to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which works on the eradication of polio, malaria, and other dangerous diseases.
I guess at some point it's getting impossible to become poor again. At least he's doing something useful with all his money by supporting research to weed out diseases.