Bill Gates tops the Forbes list of the richest Americans with a estimated Wealth of 50bn USD. He is also the wealthiest worldwide. The US investor Warren Buffet remains the traditional number 2, despite suffering losses in the financial crisis. His wealth dropped from 50-40bn USD. Because of the Crisis the total wealth of the 400 richest Americans dropped by 300bn to 1.27 trillion Dollars. A clear winner is the founder of Facebook Mark Zuckerberg, he increased his wealth by 500Mio USD to 2bn. He is the youngest among the rich and moves up in ranking from 321 to 158.

Here the top ten:

1. Bill Gates (Microsoft): 50bn

2. Warren Buffett (Berkshire Hathaway): 40bn

3. Larry Ellison (Oracle): 27 bn

4. Christy Walton (Wal-Mart): 21.5 bn

5. Jim C. Walton (Wal-Mart): 19.6 bn

6. Alice Walton (Wal-Mart): 19.3 bn

7. S. Robson Walton (Wal-Mart): 19 bn

8. Michael Bloomberg (Bloomberg LP): 17.5 bn

9. Charles Koch (Koch Industries): 16 bn

9. David Koch (Koch Industries): 16bn

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