Do the Billionaire Shuffle

	<a href='http://www.truthdig.com/banners/www/delivery/ck.php?n=a9cd87eb&cb=2038472099' target='_blank'><img src='http://www.truthdig.com/banners/www/delivery/avw.php?zoneid=1&cb=2038472099&n=a9cd87eb' border='0' alt='' /></a>	May 24, 2013
		Text Size

Trending: chris hedges economy elizabeth warren politics robert scheer

Colbert Slams PBS for Appeasing Koch Brothers

Three Questions Left Unanswered by Obama’s Counterterrorism Speech

How to Make a Million Dollars an Hour

Marching in Chicago: Resisting Rahm Emanuel’s Neoliberal Savagery

Corporate Tax Cheats by the Numbers

Marching in Chicago: Resisting Rahm Emanuel’s Neoliberal Savagery
By Henry A. Giroux, Truthout

Three Questions Left Unanswered by Obama’s Counterterrorism Speech
By Bill Blum

New York City’s Summers May Heat Up
By Tim Radford, Climate News Network

After Oklahoma Disaster, Give Thanks to Government
By David Sirota

Corporate Tax Cheats by the Numbers

‘Children Are Dying’

Gay Boys Free to Join Still-Bigoted Scouts

Obama Heckled During Speech, Warren Lands a Book Deal, and More

Paul McCartney: Free Pussy Riot

Not-So-Happy Swedes Riot in Stockholm

‘Left, Right & Center’: Obama Ends the War on Terror

Why Is the IRS Involved in Politics in the First Place?

Colbert Slams PBS for Appeasing Koch Brothers

Scahill on Obama’s Admitted Killings of Americans

How to Make a Million Dollars an Hour
By Nomi Prins

A Call to Action
By James Cromwell

‘SNL’: Stefon’s Farewell Features Anderson Cooper

Act of Congress
By Jesse Eisinger

The Questions Education Reformers Aren’t Asking

Dig led by Mike Rose

Gore Vidal: His Life and Legacy

Dig led by Truthdig Staff

Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt

By Chris Hedges and Joe Sacco
$25.99

God Is Back

by John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge
$18.45

Do the Billionaire Shuffle

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation / Prashant Panjiar

Bill Gates immunizes a child against polio during a visit to Nigeria.

Bill Gates is once again the world’s richest man, though he rules over a ravaged kingdom of billionaires. Forbes’ annual list has shriveled by nearly a third and $2 trillion in net worth. Those poor billionaires.

Gates is the sort of billionaire one can get behind. He has promised to will his entire fortune to charity and has already donated tens of billions.

Bloomberg:

Microsoft Corp. Chairman Bill Gates regained the title of world’s richest person on Forbes magazine’s annual ranking of billionaires worldwide, as the global recession slashed the size of the list by 30 percent.

The number of billionaires fell to 793 from 1,125 last year. It was the first time since 2003 that the number of people on the list decreased, and the biggest drop since the magazine began the ranking 23 years ago.

Read more

More Below the Ad

Advertisement

TAGS: bill gates billionaires charity forbes microsoft recession wealth

Related Entries

Email to a friend

Get truth delivered to
your inbox every week.

Previous item: Saudi Woman, 75, Faces Lashing for Letting In Delivery Men

Next item: Shoe-Thrower Gets 3 Years in Prison

New and Improved Comments

If you have trouble leaving a comment, review this help page. Still having problems? Let us know. If you find yourself moderated, take a moment to review our comment policy.

By coloradokarl, March 12, 2009 at 7:16 am Link to this comment

Bill gates forbids his wife and kids from owning Apple products. A Strange Little Man…............

Report this

By thebeerdoctor, March 12, 2009 at 3:04 am Link to this comment

The world would be a far better place if money sucking weasels such as Mr. Gates were never allowed to sabotage innovations in information technology, by misappropriating them, solely for the sake of profit. How much human freedom and interaction has been stifled by the crowd at Microsoft, with their never ending demand for licensing fees?
Truthdig can get behind Gates’ charitable billions, much the same way other people applauded John Rockefeller’s contributions to Spelman College. It is your right to be as cowardly as you choose.

Report this