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03-13-2006, 04:07 PM
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$ Billionaires!
In Turkish news I read a news about how many billioners in Turkey. But after reading all news I realized there is so many billioners lives in earth.( http://www.forbes.com/lists/2006/10/Worth_1.html whole list)
countries with most billioners:
1- USA:317
2-Germany: 55
3-Russia:33
4-Japan:27
5-England:24
6-India:23
7-Canada:22
8-Turkey:21
9-Hong Kong:17
10-Brazil:16
11-France:14
12-Italy:14
13- Saudi Arabia :11
14-Mexico:10
15-Spain:10
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03-13-2006, 04:17 PM
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Wow, I never knew that there was that many billionaires! Even so, that is still a SMALL percentage of the world population.
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03-13-2006, 04:26 PM
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Just goes to show, while the one country7 with the true freedom has the most - even oppresive and corrupt countries allow the wealthy to prosper
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03-13-2006, 04:33 PM
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No Chinese billionaires?
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03-13-2006, 04:38 PM
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They are there... last I checked the Walton (WalMart) family and Micheal Dell were honary Chinese citizens...
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03-13-2006, 04:43 PM
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i didn't even know canada has that many, they must have the most per capita then anyother country (next to the usa)
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03-13-2006, 04:55 PM
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hong kong is chinese last time i checked
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03-13-2006, 04:59 PM
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Originally Posted by TransAm
No Chinese billionaires?
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China have 8 billionaires.
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03-13-2006, 05:11 PM
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Originally Posted by RC45
They are there... last I checked the Walton (WalMart) family and Micheal Dell were honary Chinese citizens...
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LMAO
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03-13-2006, 06:17 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2004
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hehe, I assume the ones not in the US got banned from there.....
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03-13-2006, 07:34 PM
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Wow! I thought Brazil had only one biollionaire... :shock:
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03-13-2006, 07:52 PM
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Damn! No wonder VW thinks there is actually a market for the Veyron...just look how many billionaires there are!
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03-13-2006, 07:56 PM
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Wow that's a cool list. I like to look at what they did in college for clues.
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03-13-2006, 08:04 PM
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Originally Posted by dangerously_cool
Wow that's a cool list.
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Dangerously so
(Yes, I really have been waiting two years for this opportunity)
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03-13-2006, 08:06 PM
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Were are all the corrupt eastern block countries? :roll:
I assume those are legit "billionares" up there, if such people exist.
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