Gates no longer richest?

[vass0922]

http://news.com.com/2100-1014_3-5184...l?tag=nefd_top

STOCKHOLM--Ingvar Kamprad, the Swede who founded furniture retail chain IKEA, has overtaken Microsoft's Bill Gates as the world's richest man, Swedish TV news reported Sunday.

Those crazy swedes

Article says its partly due to the poor dollar value
Still I didn't think anybody was even close!

[phenious]

This isnt the first time this has happened. I think it happned about 5 or 6 years ago, some guy in the middle east with oil, go figure

-: phenious :-

[Droppyale]

Saddam Husein.. wasn't it?

[DanGrease]

Had to be a Swedish guy huh?
I feel so proud..

dan

PS. Phenious is right, this isn't new

[electric]

Originally posted by DanGrease
Had to be a Swedish guy huh?
I feel so proud..

dan

PS. Phenious is right, this isn't new

well you should be just seen on TV he gave most of his money to charity

[DanGrease]

Yes, I did.
He's a nice person. At least comparing him to Bill Gates
Just kidding of course

dan

[John Prophet]

maybe that $613 million that Gates just "donated" to the EU may have tipped the scales, lol

[phenious]

My guess is a lot of it will be paid with free software to public facilities

-: phenious :-

[Epidemic]

now we have to get ikea up on anti trust laws and get everyone to hate him. How can a socialist be that rich? I thought that in europe the money was taken away from the uber rich to give to the poor

[phenious]

its something along those lines Epidemic but not to that extent. I must say Im impressed with the ammount of money some people make.

-: phenious :-