«Forbes» published a rating of 400 billionaires

The global economy is really getting on its feet, this is partly proved and an annual ranking of the authoritative journal. Thus, many participants in the top 400 is not only managed to stay afloat, but also to increase their capital in the total amount of 8%. However, prior to performance in 2008 is still far. For example, if 2 years ago the total capital of U.S. billionaires reached $ 1.57 trillion, now it is $ 1.37 trillion. List the leaders remained the same. The richest Americans has been the 17 th consecutive time was considered the founder of Microsoft, Bill Gates. For a year he managed to increase his fortune by $ 4 billion to $ 54 billion, which allowed Gates to approach pre-crisis indicator - $ 59 billion worth mentioning that Gates is not only the richest Americans, but also the most generous person on the planet. In 2008 he left his job at Microsoft and began to charity. Along with his wife, he organized the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, which aims to combat disease and hunger in third world countries. The amount of its donations have about $ 30 billion, and on the eve of the founder of Microsoft, and did said that he sees no sense to leave his fortune to inherit his own children, because this step is of no benefit either for them or for society. True, the project involved the Gates and other American businessmen. About a month ago, 38 U.S. billionaires agreed to pay at least half of his fortune to charity. The campaign in June this year, Gates launched in conjunction with Warren Buffett. Incidentally, the last in the ranking of «Forbes» got second place. The famous investor in the past year increased its capital by $ 5 billion and reached $ 44 billion, closes the top three Laurence Alison with assets of $ 27 billion, also in the top ten were the representatives of wealthy families, and Koch, Walton, and even New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg. With regard to the percentage, there is more than anyone else picked up steam head of the social networking site Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, now it is worth an estimated $ 24 billion, I must say that in this rating were two more representative of Facebook - Dustin Moskowitz Severina and Eduardo, who is a student friends Zuckerberg . All in all, this year's top-400 appeared 16 new names. Among them, the representative of the gas industry Terrence Pegula ($ 3 billion), as well as investor Thomas Kaplan ($ 1.7 billion).