Average wealth of richest Americans has grown to record 4,3 billion US dollars, according to Forbes magazine, their total worth combined is around one eight of total American economy...
Growth of their personal income of 13 percent is far better than the results of national economy, which has intensified the gap between the rich and the poor. Bill Gates the head of Microsoft is on the top of the list for the 19th year in the row, with wealth which exceeds 66 billion dollars, which is 7 billion more than last year. The second place belongs to Warren Buffet, the first man of insurance company Berkshire Hathway Inc, with 46 billion, and then the director of Oracle, Larry Ellison with 41 billion. After them comes brothers Charles and David Koch, owners of the energetically and chemical industry Koch Industries, worth 31 billion dollars.
Then comes the Walton family which owns Wal-Mart. Marta, Jim, Ellis and Rob has places from 6th to 9th. First five on the list hasn`t changed since 2011, but two person from the top ten in the list in 2011, are now out. Those are the owner of chains of casinos Sheldon Adelson which felled from 8th to 12th place and financier George Soros has fallen from 7th to 15th place.
Disappointing results of Facebook on the stock market, has made Mark Zuckerbergs, smaller by almost the half, and he is now on 36th place, and last year he was on 14th place.
