The Richest People in the World

For the second year in a row the richest man to be recorded in the world right now, is Carlos Slim Helu.  At the age of  71 he's done pretty well for himself simply by being a very successful business man in many different industries.  He was born on January 28, 1940, in Mexico City, Mexico to Julián Slim Haddad and Linda Helú.  He is the fifth born of six children, and he's definitely the most successful of them all, which I actually find funny because earlier today I read that first born children on average are much smarter and do better than their younger siblings.  Which I hope is true because I'm a first born child... Anyway, so like I said Carlos is the richest man in the world for the second time over Bill Gates.  This year he really whupped everyone else's butts, with a 18 billion dollar lead over B.G. Making Carlos's 74 billion dollars the greatest amount of money to one person in the world.  Interesting fact: Carlos Slim has had the same house for the past 40 years, and I'm pretty sure it's not a very big house, I don't know, what would you do if you had 74 BILLION dollars!!!