Forbes is profiling the 400 richest Americans. MSN Money has a good summary of the list, as well. There are five Waltons in the top ten. If you wanted to be on the list this year, you would have had to have cracked $900 million.
Maybe next year.
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7:13 pm (reply)
I’m actually surprised there aren’t 400 billionaires in America. I would’ve thought a few hundred people would’ve managed to finesse the end of the tech bubble, if only by dumb luck.
(Hi, I wandered in from Slate—1 minute of your 15 has been duly deducted from your account. g)