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These lists are pretty arbitrary. They don't include more than $32 trillion hidden in off shore accounts. Putin, Gaddafi, Mubarak, and other third world dicator

These lists are pretty arbitrary. They don't include more than $32 trillion hidden in off shore accounts. Putin, Gaddafi, Mubarak, and other third world dicators have many trillions stashed away. That is not even to count the monarchs who practically own entire countries.

virmundi 12y ago
I agree on the arbitrariness. But do you have a some links for the $32 trillion hidden offshore. I'm just interested.
- littletimmy 12y ago
  http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/07/22/us-offshore-wealth-idUSBRE86L03U20120722 http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/07/22/us-offshore-wealth... That's a lot of money.
- speeder 12y ago
  Although I think people superestimate the wealth of some leaders (like Putin and Khadaffi when he was alive), there is some people much wealthier than Bill Gates. I met once a guy that worked for some banks that handled middle-east money, and he said it was not uncommon to see some accounts moving around numbers with a crazy amount of zeroes, although he didn't knew what was personal money, what was family money, and what was company money, the amount of money flow still was much, much more than what western people move... but middle easterns don't care about disclosing it.
duiker101 12y ago
I wonder what would anyone do with a trillion dollars... I really can't comprehend this numbers...
- ChuckMcM 12y ago
  what ever they want.. :-) I agree, even a billion dollars, as free cash (as opposed to illiquid property holdings) is mind boggling. At IMF .9% interest rates that is $25,000 a day you would have to spend just to spend off the interest income.
  - arethuza 12y ago
    I vividly remember the BBC reports about the US government flying planes filled with pallets of cash into Iraq - apparently $12 billion in cash was flow in: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2007/feb/08/usa.iraq1 http://www.theguardian.com/world/2007/feb/08/usa.iraq1
- protomyth 12y ago
  Oh, I bet you could find something to amuse yourself. I would go with building my own city (can I get to work in ND every day in only a t-shirt) and seeing if my theory of nodal sprawl with high speed rail actually happens. Oh, the couple of billion for Cancer Research, Brain Research, American Indian College Fund, and OpenBSD Foundation would be fun. Also doing a better OLPC. We all have dreams of what we could do, its another matter of if those dreams would stay with us at that level.
- lotsofmangos 12y ago
  You could wallpaper the land area of Cyprus with dollar bills and still have around 40 billion left.

virmundi 12y ago

I agree on the arbitrariness. But do you have a some links for the $32 trillion hidden offshore. I'm just interested.

littletimmy 12y ago
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/07/22/us-offshore-wealth-idUSBRE86L03U20120722 http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/07/22/us-offshore-wealth... That's a lot of money.
speeder 12y ago
Although I think people superestimate the wealth of some leaders (like Putin and Khadaffi when he was alive), there is some people much wealthier than Bill Gates. I met once a guy that worked for some banks that handled middle-east money, and he said it was not uncommon to see some accounts moving around numbers with a crazy amount of zeroes, although he didn't knew what was personal money, what was family money, and what was company money, the amount of money flow still was much, much more than what western people move... but middle easterns don't care about disclosing it.

duiker101 12y ago

I wonder what would anyone do with a trillion dollars... I really can't comprehend this numbers...

ChuckMcM 12y ago
what ever they want.. :-) I agree, even a billion dollars, as free cash (as opposed to illiquid property holdings) is mind boggling. At IMF .9% interest rates that is $25,000 a day you would have to spend just to spend off the interest income.
- arethuza 12y ago
  I vividly remember the BBC reports about the US government flying planes filled with pallets of cash into Iraq - apparently $12 billion in cash was flow in: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2007/feb/08/usa.iraq1 http://www.theguardian.com/world/2007/feb/08/usa.iraq1
protomyth 12y ago
Oh, I bet you could find something to amuse yourself. I would go with building my own city (can I get to work in ND every day in only a t-shirt) and seeing if my theory of nodal sprawl with high speed rail actually happens. Oh, the couple of billion for Cancer Research, Brain Research, American Indian College Fund, and OpenBSD Foundation would be fun. Also doing a better OLPC. We all have dreams of what we could do, its another matter of if those dreams would stay with us at that level.
lotsofmangos 12y ago
You could wallpaper the land area of Cyprus with dollar bills and still have around 40 billion left.