{"id":34346,"date":"2013-03-04T12:16:48","date_gmt":"2013-03-04T19:16:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=34346"},"modified":"2013-03-04T12:16:48","modified_gmt":"2013-03-04T19:16:48","slug":"cnn-forbes-rankings-finds-210-new-billionaires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2013\/03\/04\/cnn-forbes-rankings-finds-210-new-billionaires\/","title":{"rendered":"CNN: Forbes rankings finds 210 new billionaires"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are a record 1,426 billionaires spread around the globe, according to the latest count from Forbes, as rising stock prices helped bring 210 new members into the exclusive 10-figure club.<\/p>\n<p>The Forbes rankings published Monday showed Mexican telecom mogul Carlos Slim on top of the list for the fourth year in a row. His estimated $73 billion fortune, up from $69 billion a year ago, edged out Microsoft founder Bill Gates, once again No. 2 on the list with a $67 billion fortune.<\/p>\n<p>But Gates&#8217; friend Warren Buffett fell out of the top three for the first time since 2000, as Amancio Ortega of Spanish retailer Zara took the bronze. Ortega&#8217;s fortune of $57 billion represented a gain of $19.5 billion from 2012, the biggest gain of anyone on the list.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t worry about Buffett, though, his fortune posted the second biggest increase on the list, rising $9.5 billion to $53.5 billion. Shares of Berkshire Hathaway (BRKA, Fortune 500), his investment firm, rose 17% last year.<\/p>\n<p>The United States once again had the most billionaires at 442, a net gain of 17 from a year ago. That compares to 386 in the Asia-Pacific region and 366 in Europe. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2013\/03\/04\/news\/economy\/forbes-billionaires\/\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\nClick here for the full story.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are a record 1,426 billionaires spread around the globe, according to the latest count from Forbes, as rising stock prices helped bring 210 new members into the exclusive 10-figure club. The Forbes rankings published Monday showed Mexican telecom mogul Carlos Slim on top of the list for the fourth year in a row. His [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-important-news-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34346\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}