forbes.com — Riding the surging price of Berkshire Hathaway (nyse: BRK - news - people ) stock, America's most beloved investor has seen his fortune swell to an estimated $62 billion, up $10 billion from a year ago. That massive pile of scratch puts him ahead of Microsoft (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ) co-founder Bill Gates, who was the richest man in
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lbobrifeMar 6, 2008
That's one of the arguments for why the rich should be taxed at a much higher rate. It's much easier to give away 800k out of a million in taxes and still have 200k than give 80k out of 100k and only have 20k.
cathlMar 6, 2008
I think most people would call it quits after they earned their first billion, and spend the rest of there days on a tropical island sipping wine and occasionally checking in on their portfolio. It really takes a special kind of person to amass this kind of wealth and continue working.
charliekwalkerMar 7, 2008
Buffett is a Cylon.
Closed AccountMar 7, 2008
Ummm....yyyyeah. I have a rothschild across the hall neighbor, I am very well aware of the history of the family--where they were, and where they are now. And yes, they were exterminated during wwII. So seks03, maybe you should go find more wikipedia articles from which to draw your ill-education.
gettinrealMar 9, 2008
How do you get killed in the war that you orchestrate? You are such an idiot. Check out the Rothschild NM Bank of London. One of the World's largest investment banks for over two centuries....and they got killed in WWII? Nobody with that much money gets exterminated....
theclashrockerMar 13, 2008
OMG we need to all buy Vista to make Bill Gates number one again! lawl
lolo2007May 19, 2008
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