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Carlos Slim tops Forbes magazine’s list of billionaires – and it is not America.
Carlos Slim Helou in the headlines this week after Forbes magazine named the world’s top billionaire, putting him ahead of the likes of Gates, Microsoft founder and the legendary American investor Warren Buffett.
But unlike Gates, who was in last year’s top billionaire, Buffett, who holds the title a year ago, Mexico’s original sound was not exactly a household name in the United States … He probably likes it that way.
“I’ll remind him as a person with a minimum file I’ve ever seen,” Saleem said Deputy Arturo Elias ABCNews.com last year.
In the last 15 months, however, a sound file, which no doubt has increased. In January 2009, Salim has invested 250 million dollars to support the patient, then the balance sheet of the New York Times Company. Recently, it was rumored that the sound he was looking to buy the company and the media directly. Elias Salim denied that he had any plans to do so, according to The Wall Street Journal earlier this month.
The potential benefits of a sound financial growing in the New York Times stake – he initially bought a stake in the company in September 2008 – are significant. Times his second investment was in the form of interest-bearing bonds, which stands to provide a high return for relatively healthy, 14 percent.
But also brought a sound something else: a bad reputation.
It represents “a coming-out party in the United States,” said Armand Peschard – Sverdup, a senior associate at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
“Regardless of what the New York Times wrote – whether in red or black – in the end, it’s an incredible calling card, and said” Peschard – Sverdup.
By the Times, a sound card was a good call, calling.
He’s got a large part of his fortune through investments in Mexico, and they are in the telecommunications industry and wireless. In 1990, he bought and privatization of Telmex, the Mexican government’s monopoly national telephone company.