   Bill Gates no longer the richest!
  It was anounced on the radio today the the creator of Ikea, the swedish furniture store, is now worth 70 billion dollars. Bill gates is only worth a paltry 62 billion! 
  Isnt Bill''s stock worth a total of somthing like 34 billion? And isnt Microsoft (all of it) woth like 200-ish billion? I remember seeing that somewhere. ;  Unless he just found   eight billion dollars, we would''ve heard it before.   Look, one of the few who hasn''t   asked Salsa for an Avatar.Nor do I follow the trend of putting "I don''t follow trends" in your sig.Wait... ;  The people who did the counting attribute the change to the fall of the dollar. Gates got most of his wealth in dollars, while Ingvar Kamprad (the IK in IKEA) is based in Europe. ;  I thought the guy that owns walmart pulled ahead of billie a year or two ago!And bill gates has never been the richest man in the world, I think the guy thats the prince or something of the UAE is! ;quote:Original post by flukus  And bill gates has never been the richest man in the world, I think the guy thats the prince or something of the UAE is!   Sultan of Brunei, I think you mean - and no, Bill was richer.His donations to charity and the like have probably contributed to this. ;  he he he, sultan of brown eye... ;  From Forbes "World Richest" list of 2004Rank  Name  Age    Worth  Country Of Citizenship   Residence1  William Gates III    4846.6  United States  United States , WA , Medina13 Ingvar Kamprad  7718.5  Sweden    Switzerland , Lausanne    Where did that Ikea guy find that much money al of the sudden?    [edited by - TheSorcerer on April 5, 2004 6:29:25 AM];quote:Original post by flukus   I thought the guy that owns walmart pulled ahead of billie a year or two ago!That'd be pretty impressive, since he died 12 years ago (to the day, actually). ;quote:Original post by TheSorcerer  Where did that Ikea guy find that much money al of the sudden?   Wait a sec, the source seems to be the last issue of the magazine Veckans Affärer. When was this issue released? Not thursday, by any chance? 