{"id":22769,"date":"2013-03-06T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-03-06T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/22769\/carlos-slim-still-richest-man-in-the-world"},"modified":"2013-03-06T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-03-06T00:00:00","slug":"carlos-slim-still-richest-man-in-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/en\/22769\/carlos-slim-still-richest-man-in-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Carlos Slim Still Richest Man in the World"},"content":{"rendered":"No surprises there.<br \/>  <br \/>  With 73 billion dollars to his name, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/business\/2013\/mar\/04\/forbes-rich-list-carlos-slim-billionaires\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">The Guardian<\/a> reports that Lebanese-Mexican entrepreneur Carlos Slim Hel\u00fa comfortably tops the list of richest people in the world, besting out Bill Gates by a gargantuan six billion.<br \/>  <br \/>  For a brief history of how he came to be a billionaire, watch the video below courtesy of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/nowthisnews\/he-is-the-0001-749g\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">BuzzFeed.<\/a> It&#8217;s worth the 1.5 minutes of your time.<br \/>  <br \/>    <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"490\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/p.nowthisnews.com\/entry\/1666\/\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>  <br \/>  <br \/>  According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/billionaires\/list\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">Forbes&#8217; World Billionaire List<\/a>, Bill Gates and Amancio Ortega trail Helu in second and third place, pushing Warren Buffet to fourth place. The gross fortune of all 1,426 dollar billionaires amounts to a massive 5.4 trillion dollars, or a third of the U.S&#8217;s annual output.<br \/>  <br \/>  The only other Arabs to make the top 100 list were Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Alsaud (#26) at $20 Billion and Mohammed Al Amoudi (#65) at $13.5 billion.<br \/>  <br \/>  Now if only they&#8217;d invest in the rest of the Arab world.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No surprises there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":453055,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ai_generated_summary":"","_preview_accessed":0,"footnotes":""},"tags":[347],"media-embed-type":[],"class_list":["post-22769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","tag-trending"],"authorship":[176],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.7 (Yoast SEO v27.7) - 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