Who is in the U.S. Billionaires Club?

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Out of the entire 793 billionaires that the world is prevalent to, 403 billionaires are in the United States.  In 2009, most of the richest billionaires decreased in wealth due to the economy and the downfall in the real estate market.  Today, the average billionaire has $3 billion of net worth, which is down by 23%.  These investors make up for 44% of the billionaire’s fortunes in the world.

Even though there has been a decrease in the amount of billionaires, there were actually 38 wealthy people who joined the group last year.  Therefore, fewer people are gaining in richness and others are just trying to maintain their status and wealth with much effort.  Don’t worry, this will not last long, once the economy improves, the poor will not be as poor and the rich, well they will be richer of course. 

Due to the decline, some people are saying that this couldn’t have been avoided no matter what the circumstances were, so unfortunately there is always going to be a downturn in the economy.  With bank foreclosures happening all over the country, banks have had to implement stricter guidelines for improving loans, but this has not helped the majority of investors who put the cash in the bank’s pocket to give you the opportunity to borrow and purchase your home from the bank.

You might be mad that there are so many billionaires in the world, but the majority in some way or another, are actually helping the middle and lower classes.  I am sure that you have heard that Bill Gates is no longer ranked as the richest person in the world.  In March of 2010 Gates took a huge loss along with Warren Buffet, which was a setback for both billionaires.  William Gates is now ranked the 2nd richest man and Warren Buffet is ranked the 3rd in the world.  The self made billionaire, Carlos Slim Helu from Mexico rose to the 1st richest man in the world with a net worth of $53.5 billion.

Bill Gates should regain his title as the richest man in 2011 according to businesses who urge everyone to continue spending.  If we stop spending, we could possibly make our economy worst, which is hard for me to believe.  In recent years, a freeze in spending has caused detrimental loss in the world of billionaires.  

Here is the list from A-Z:

John Abele, S. Daniel Abraham, Sheldon Adelson, Guma Aguiar, Paul Allen, John Edward Anderson, Leonore Annenberg, Wallis Annenberg, Walter Annenberg, Philip Anschutz, Mary Anselmo,Barbara Cox Anthony, George Argyros, Micky Arison, Shari Arison, Ted Arison, Roland Arnall,  John D. Arnold, John Arrillaga, Louis Bacon, Thomas H. Bailey, Steve Ballmer, Tom Barrack,Ed Bass, Lee Marshall Bass, Robert Bass, Sid Bass, Frank Batten, Andrew Beal, Riley P. Bechtel,Stephen Bechtel, Jr., Clayton Bennett, Carl Berg, Jeff Bezos, Leon Black, Arthur Blank,  Leonard Blavatnik, Michael Bloomberg, Ernie Boch, Jr., David Bonderman, Franklin Otis Booth Jr.,Amar Bose, Donald Bren, Sergey Brin, Eli Broad, Edgar Bronfman, Jr., Warren Buffett, Ronald Burkle,Gary Burrell, Charles Butt, John Calamos, Clive Calder, James R. Cargill, Margaret Anne Cargill,Alan Casden, S. Truett Cathy, Anne Cox Chambers, Steven A. Cohen, William Cook, David C. Copley,James Coulter, Lester Crown, Mark Cuban, Ray Dalio, Daniel A. D’Aniello, William DavidsonBarbara Davis, Marvin Davis, Fred De Luca, John Paul DeJoria, Michael Dell, Richard DeVos,John Doerr , Ray Dolby, Stanley Druckenmiller, Doris Duke, Dan Duncan, Richard Egan, Larry Ellison,Archie Aldis Emmerson, Jeffrey Epstein, Charlie Ergen, Chuck Feeney, David Filo, Donald FisherKenneth Fisher, Thomas Flatley, J. Christopher Flowers, Jim France, Sidney Frank, Thomas H. Friedkin,Foster Friess, Bill Gates, Edward Gaylord, David Geffen, Gordon Getty, J. Paul Getty, George N. Gillett Jr.,  Malcolm Glazer, Tom Golisano, James Goodnight, Alec Gores, Tom Gores, David Gottesman,Chryss Goulandris, Pincus Green, Kenneth C. Griffin, William H. Gross, Bill Hambrecht,Marguerite Harbert, George Randolph Hearst III, George Randolph Hearst Jr., Leona Helmsley,Ken Hendricks, Tom Hicks, Steven Hicks, Larry Hillblom, Barron Hilton, Robert HoldingAmos Hostetter Jr., Ming Hsieh, B. Wayne Hughes, Howard Hughes, Ray Lee Hunt, Jon Huntsman, Sr.Barbara Hutton, Carl Icahn, Erskine Bronson Ingram, Martha Rivers Ingram, Jess Stonestreet Jackson Jr.,Joe Jamail, James Jannard, Steve Jobs, Abigail Johnson, Barbara Piasecka Johnson,Charles Bartlett Johnson, Edward Johnson III, Robert L. Johnson, Rupert Johnson Jr.,  Samuel Curtis Johnson Jr., Jerry Jones, Paul Tudor Jones, George Kaiser, Min Kao, Peter Kellogg,James C. Kennedy, Kirk Kerkorian, Vinod Khosla, Richard Kinder, Randal J. Kirk, John Kluge, Phil Knight,Charles G. Koch, David H. Koch, Jerome Kohlberg Jr., Herbert Kohler Jr., Bruce Kovner, Henry Kravis,John Krehbiel Jr., Ann Walton Kroenke, Stan Kroenke, Edward Lampert, Leonard Lauder, Ronald Lauder,Ralph Lauren, Thomas H. Lee, Fred A. Lennon, Al Lerner, Leon Levy, Peter Lewis,  Edward Linde,Carl Lindner Jr., Leonard Litwin, George Lucas, Daniel K. Ludwig, Craig McCaw, Aubrey McClendon,Patrick Joseph McGovern, Bob McNair, C. Edward McVaney, Maloof family,  George J. Maloof Jr.,Alfred E. Mann, Joe Mansueto, Bernard Marcus, Roger Marino, Donald Marron, Forrest Mars Jr.,Jacqueline Mars, John Franklyn Mars, Manny Mashouf, John Menard Jr., Michael Milken,Robert Warren Miller, Paul Milstein, George P. Mitchell, William Moncrief, Gordon Moore,Jim Moran, William Morean, Arte Moreno, Manuel Moroun, Charlie Munger, Rupert Murdoch,David H. Murdock, Marshall Naify, Robert Naify, Donald Newhouse, Samuel Irving Newhouse Jr.,Samuel Irving Newhouse Sr., Henry Nicholas, Larry Nichols, Pierre Omidyar, Bernard Osher,David Packard, Larry Page, Max Palevsky, John Paulson, Nelson Peltz, Ronald Perelman, Ross Perot,Peter George Peterson, T. Boone Pickens, Jeffry Picower, Carl Pohlad, Michael F. Price, Pritzker family,Anthony Pritzker, Daniel Pritzker, J.B. Pritzker, Jay Pritzker, Linda Pritzker, Nicholas J. Pritzker,Penny Pritzker, Robert Pritzker, Thomas Pritzker, Richard Rainwater, Raj Rajaratnam, Mitchell Rales,Steven M. Rales, Sumner Redstone, Ira Rennert, Marc Rich, Sid W. Richardson, George R. Roberts,Arthur Rock, David Rockefeller, Edward P. Roski, Stephen M. Ross, Wilbur Ross, Robert Rowling,David Rubenstein, Haim Saban, John Sall, Henry Samueli, Herbert Sandler, Marion Sandler,David I Saperstein, Tamir Sapir, Fayez Sarofim, Richard Mellon Scaife, Dwight Schar, Eric E. Schmidt,Howard Schultz, Richard M. Schulze, Charles R. Schwab, Stephen A. Schwarzman, Sheldon Solow,Walter Shorenstein, Thomas Siebel, Larry Silverstein, Harold Simmons, Herbert Simon, Norton Simon,James Harris Simons, J. R. Simplot, Jeffrey Skoll, John A. Sobrato, Patrick Soon-Shiong,James LeVoy Sorenson, George Soros, Alex Spanos, John Sperling, Peter Sperling, Steven Spielberg,Allen Stanford, John W. Stanton, George Steinbrenner, Jackson T. Stephens, Leonard N. Stern,Max Stern, Pat Stryker, Glen Taylor, Jack C. Taylor, David Tepper, Peter Thiel, James S. Tisch, Joan Tisch,Jonathan Tisch, Laurence Tisch, Kenny Troutt, Donald Trump, Steven F. Udvar-Házy, Jay Van Andel,Hope Hill Van Beuren, Alberto Vilar, Romesh Wadhwani, Ted Waitt, Walton family, Alice Walton,  Christy Walton, S. Robson Walton, Sam Walton, Roger Wang, Tom L. Ward, Ty Warner,Dennis Washington, Bruce Wasserstein, Les Wexner, Dean White, Meg Whitman, Arthur L. Williams Jr.,Oprah Winfrey, Chin-Cheng Wu, Steve Wynn, Jerry Yang, Sam Zell, William Bernard Ziff Jr., Anita Zucker,Jerry Zucker, Mortimer Zuckerman