{"id":65,"date":"2007-07-03T15:17:43","date_gmt":"2007-07-03T21:17:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/home.galador.org\/blog\/?p=65"},"modified":"2007-07-03T15:17:43","modified_gmt":"2007-07-03T21:17:43","slug":"mexican-tycoon-overtakes-bill-gates-as-richest-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.galador.org\/blog\/mexican-tycoon-overtakes-bill-gates-as-richest-man\/","title":{"rendered":"Mexican Tycoon Overtakes Bill Gates as Richest Man"},"content":{"rendered":"<br \/>\n<blockquote><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/files.galador.org\/pics\/tycoon-slim.jpg\"\/ align=\"right\">Microsoft founder Bill Gates looks to have lost his title as the world&#8217;s richest man, toppled from top spot by the Mexican telecoms tycoon Carlos Slim.<\/p>\n<p>Three months ago the <a href=\"http:\/\/business.guardian.co.uk\/story\/0,,2056114,00.html\" >cigar-chomping Mr Slim quietly slipped past<\/a> legendary US investor Warren Buffett to take second place in the global wealth league.<\/p>\n<p>Now, thanks to a surge in the shares of his America Movil group, Mr Slim has claimed pole position, according to the Mexican online financial publication, Sentido Com\u00fan. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I guess Billy-boy&#8217;s going to have start increasing production on Vista-only products to catch back up.  ;P   Though, I do agree with a <a href=\"http:\/\/digg.com\/business_finance\/Bill_Gates_no_longer_world_s_richest_man?t=7551499#c7551499\" >certain digg reader<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>definition of irony:<\/p>\n<p>Millions of Mexicans cross the border into the US to find jobs and make money. Meanwhile the world&#8217;s richest man is now a Mexican.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/business.guardian.co.uk\/story\/0,,2117330,00.html?gusrc=rss&#038;feed=24\"><strong><span class=\"caps\">SOURCE<\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft founder Bill Gates looks to have lost his title as the world&#8217;s richest man, toppled from top spot by the Mexican telecoms tycoon Carlos Slim. Three months ago the cigar-chomping Mr Slim quietly slipped past legendary US investor Warren Buffett to take second place in the global wealth league. Now, thanks to a surge &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.galador.org\/blog\/mexican-tycoon-overtakes-bill-gates-as-richest-man\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mexican Tycoon Overtakes Bill Gates as Richest Man<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.galador.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.galador.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.galador.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.galador.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.galador.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.galador.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.galador.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.galador.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.galador.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}