Financial Jesus » billionaires http://www.financialjesus.com Some people are rich long before they have money Wed, 25 Aug 2010 19:30:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Top 25 Richest People in The World in 2009 vs 2008 http://www.financialjesus.com/financial-crisis/top-25-richest-people-in-the-world-in-2009-vs-2008/ http://www.financialjesus.com/financial-crisis/top-25-richest-people-in-the-world-in-2009-vs-2008/#comments Tue, 17 Mar 2009 05:31:53 +0000 Roman http://www.financialjesus.com/?p=1094 Warren Buffet - the second richest man in the world in 2009 but the richest man in 2009

Here is a graph I put together using data from Forbes for 2008 and 2009 to see how much money the top 25 richest people in the world lost during the last year. All together the 25 richest people in the world lost 202.5 billion dollars in 1 year. Click on the graph for a larger image Top 25 richest people in the world in 2008 vs 2009

The billionaires who lost most money during the last year

  1. Lakshmi Mittal – 25.7 billion dollars
  2. Warren Buffett – 25.0 billion dollars
  3. Mukesh Ambani – 23.5 billion dollars
  4. Bill Gates – 18 billion dollars

The only billionaire who made money during last year

The only billionaire in this list who made money during the last year was Michael Bloomberg.

He is the current mayor of New York and the owner of Bloomberg financial software services company. The reason he made 4.5 billion dollars last year was because the stock market has been crazy during the last months and his company Bloomberg L.P is the largest financial news delivering company in the world. Bloomberg sells financial data and news to banks, stock brokers, analysts and news agencies.

When the economy is doing badly he has a lot more news to sell!

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