Who is today the world's richest man, as compared to yesterday?

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* April 4, 2018

Amazon's CEO Jeff Bezos' net worth:
$130.7 billion USD*
2018
Jeff Bezos/Net worth


https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Bezos

"On October 10, 2017, he made an estimated $6.24 billion* in 5 minutes, slightly less than the entire economic output of Kyrgyzstan.

On March 6, 2018, Bezos was officially designated the wealthiest person in the world with a registered net worth of $112 billion. He unseated Bill Gates ($90 billion) who was $6 billion ahead of Warren Buffett ($84 billion), ranked third. He is considered the first registered centi-billionaire (not adjusted for inflation).

His wealth, in 2017–18 terms, equaled that of 2.7 million Americans. Bezos's net worth increased by $33.6 billion from January 2017 to January 2018. This increase outstripped the economic development (in GDP terms) of more than 96 countries around the world. During March 9, Bezos earned $230,000 every 60-seconds. The Motley Fool estimated that if Bezos had not sold any of his shares from its original public offering in 1997, his net worth would sit at $181 billion in 2018."


* Twice as much what D. Trump is worth today during his entire lifetime;
in only five minutes! Put that in your pipe and smoke it. ;)
 

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World's richest has gotta be this guy:

 

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Nobody knows for sure; I've read $70 billion...for Poutine.

• Vladimir Putin · Net worth $70 billion USD (2018)

• Donald Trump - $3.100 billion USD (2018)
...Peanuts (spare change)
 

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Jeff Bezos net worth hits $150 billion today, Putin is said to be worth $200 billion or more and the Rothschild minimum $2-5 trillion and could be more then $500 trillion.Now thats some serious coin. How high would $2 trillion in $100 bills be?
 

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And Putin just got richer (maybe):
• https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/worl...-off-south-korea/ar-AAAgu1A?OCID=ansmsnnews11

$2 trillion in $100 bill? That would be 1,357.32 miles high!
 
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I can tell you the Microsoft/Amazon/Starbucks employees that sit at my desk everyday are by far and away not unhappy...
 

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"The height of a stack of 1,000,000,000,000 (one trillion) one dollar bills measures 67,866 miles. This would reach more than one fourth the way from the earth to the moon. The height of a stack of 100,000,000,000,000 (one hundred trillion) one dollar bills measures 6,786,616 miles."

So, for $100 bills you would divide 67,866 miles by 100 = 678.66 miles.
And for $2 trillion you would multiply 678.66 by 2 = 1,357.32 miles.
 

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For sure Putin will be getting a piece of the treasure.

http://fortune.com/video/2018/07/18/sunken-russian-warship-had-130-billion-in-gold-on-board/

And just few days ago: http://fortune.com/2018/07/18/diamonds-new-study-quadrillion-tons/
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That's not all (six years ago):
https://www.wired.co.uk/article/russian-diamond-smorgasbord
http://www.bendavidjewelers.com/blo...-of-carats-of-diamonds-say-russian-scientists

Russia has a secure future. But why do they have to cheat in sports?
And why are they experts @ spying and @ hacking?
Beats me!
 
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Wonder what kind of cables Bezos uses (12 gauge zip cord?) - or he just hires an entire orchestra for the evening !!

I wonder what kind of guy Bezos is. He is clearly brilliant in the business sense since he took an on-line book selling company ~20 years ago to the largest (or close to it) retailer in the universe, selling almost anything you can think of and can get it to your door licitly split.

That his lower level employees like him (due to their stock price) doesn't mean he is not an SOB to work for, but I have no idea.

Curious.
 

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Don't forget about the massive corruption, and all the players that get a piece of the pie.
 

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Wonder what kind of cables Bezos uses (12 gauge zip cord?) - or he just hires an entire orchestra for the evening !!

I wonder what kind of guy Bezos is. He is clearly brilliant in the business sense since he took an on-line book selling company ~20 years ago to the largest (or close to it) retailer in the universe, selling almost anything you can think of and can get it to your door licitly split.

That his lower level employees like him (due to their stock price) doesn't mean he is not an SOB to work for, but I have no idea.

Curious.

I'd like to buy him a coffee and have a chat, just for kick.
 

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Don't forget about the massive corruption, and all the players that get a piece of the pie.

That must come with the territory. ...A part of their patrimony.
I think it's human nature globally.
Russia just hosted the World Cup...that builds universal character.
 

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