Bill Gates tops U.S. wealth list 15 years in a row


	Bill Gates tops U.S. wealth list 15 years in a row

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/79e37c37-d86d-4e8b-8cf6-c0101da03837/667CD7EE-472B-447B-9C47-A9276C61F397/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://in.news.yahoo.com/137/20080918/391/ttc-bill-gates-tops-u-s-wealth-list-15-y.html" href="http://in.news.yahoo.com/137/20080918/391/ttc-bill-gates-tops-u-s-wealth-list-15-y.html" style="font-size: 11px;">in.news.yahoo.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://in.news.yahoo.com/137/20080918/391/ttc-bill-gates-tops-u-s-wealth-list-15-y.html"><P>By Phil Wahba</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://in.news.yahoo.com/137/20080918/391/ttc-bill-gates-tops-u-s-wealth-list-15-y.html"><P>NEW YORK (Reuters) - Microsoft founder Bill Gates is the richest person in the United States for the 15th year in a row, but economic woes have claimed some members of Forbes magazine ranking of the 400 wealthiest Americans.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://in.news.yahoo.com/137/20080918/391/ttc-bill-gates-tops-u-s-wealth-list-15-y.html"><P>Dropouts this year include former American International Group chief executive Maurice Greenberg, and former eBay chief Meg Whitman, while among those on the list some 126 fortunes declined -- six times more than last year.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://in.news.yahoo.com/137/20080918/391/ttc-bill-gates-tops-u-s-wealth-list-15-y.html"><P>Casino magnate Sheldon Adelson saw his fortune dwindle by $13 billion in the past year, the biggest loss of anyone on the list, while Kirk Kerkorian's fortune shrank by $6.8 billion as shares in casino operator MGM Mirage tumbled.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://in.news.yahoo.com/137/20080918/391/ttc-bill-gates-tops-u-s-wealth-list-15-y.html"><P>"The fact that the rich are not getting richer means that the economy is locked," said Matthew Miller, editor of the Forbes list. "Credit is not being extended, there is very little liquidity in the markets and deals can't get done, so the economy contracts."</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/667CD7EE-472B-447B-9C47-A9276C61F397/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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