In one year it burned six billion dollars, the most serious loss ever seen in the United States. And it was he who recorded it, the oracle of Omaha, Warren Buffett. The US billionaire, who is second only to Bill Gates in terms of greenbacks at home, continues in any case to carry on his crusade for raising the tax rate on Scrooges. A sign that, despite the negative year, after all Warren isn't doing so badly.
According to the latest calculations by Forbes magazine, which annually publishes the ranking of the 400 richest men in the US, the elderly financial guru still has something like 39 billion dollars in his hands. Not enough to undermine the primacy of his friend Bill, founder of Microsoft. But enough to be sure of winning the silver medal again this year. It's true, the young epigone Mark Zuckerberg, father of Facebook, has earned the beauty of 12 billion in 10 months. But that only earned him entry into the top 20.
