Meet the World's 1,426 Billionaires
Forbes has just released the 2013 edition of its world "Billionaire's List", and while the names at the top are mostly familiar, the ranks of the elitest of the elite continue to grow.
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Just a week after he topped the Forbes list of the world's richest people, Carlos Slim faces a sweeping new set of regulations in the telecommunications market which he controls almost exclusively.
Forbes has just released the 2013 edition of its world "Billionaire's List", and while the names at the top are mostly familiar, the ranks of the elitest of the elite continue to grow.
Bloomberg seems very excited about its newfangled "Bloomberg Billionaires Index" which, like Forbes' "The World's Billionaire List" before it, serves mainly as a reminder of how much money you don't have.
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Asked what he thinks of Jill Abramson, the Mexican moguls says, "I'm sorry. Who?"
"We just think the price of the stock is in a good point to buy," says Slim's spokesperson
Critics weigh in on Carlos Slim's real-life Xanadu
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