The richest man in the world according to the authoritative edition of Forbes

It is thanks to the "fourth power" that we can learn news and savor the details of the personal life of the stars and the powerful of this world. It is thanks to the work of the media that we do not have a secret for ourselves, who is the richest person in the world.

Who does not like to discuss the rich and famous? Not belonging to the class of data of people, a huge number of ordinary citizens like to study pages of glossy magazines with images and interviews of the rich and famous. The richest man in the world - that's what more magazines and newspapers follow than this man himself. A popular and authoritative magazine Forbes is a fan of making lists of this kind. It is difficult to say whether the opinion of the press is objective, because much remains behind the scenes, and in hands, or rather, the eyes of the public, gets only a beautifully packaged gift. Therefore, it is necessary to judge who is the richest man in the world only from the data that the "fourth power" gives to the people.

It is worth noting that, even despite the unrest from the connection with the global economic crisis, the ranks of more than wealthy people in the world are calm and stable. Carlos Slim Elu, as says from his pages such a publication as Forbes, this is the richest man in the world. Being a Mexican, he owns a telecommunications giant empire called America Moville. At the time of the publication of the magazine (March 4), its capital increased by $ 4 billion compared to the previous year. A year ago, in 2012, the state of Carlos Slim Elu was 69 billion. The Mexican has been steadfast in his position for four years now. In addition to the main television business, the tycoon also develops other spaces, acquiring shares in the coal industry, real estate, football clubs and tobacco enterprises. Carlos also has a stake in America's most famous and independent newspaper The New York Times.

At the second line of the hit parade "The richest man in the world" comfortably located American "tamer" machines with intelligence, the founder of Microsoft and the most popular operating system - Bill Gates. The size of the capital of this IT-genius is 67 billion in the national currency of the United States. It should be noted that for a long time the computer genius stuck to the first positions of the list until it was overtaken by the Mexican telecommunications owner. To date, Bill Gates has given more and more time to family and charity.

All over the world huge popularity is enjoyed by clothes of excellent quality with a beautiful name "Zara". The owner of this brand and the founder of the "Indix" Amancio Ortega triumphantly ascended to the third stage of the pedestal in the race for the title "The richest man in the world." Thanks to the same brand, its fortune in one year almost doubled and amounted to 57 billion US dollars. This businessman became the richest man in Europe, taking the palm tree of Bernardo Arnaud. Ortega moved from the pedestal of the famous American businessman Warren Buffett. He and his "stylish" state in the amount of 53.5 billion are now on the fourth place in the list of Forbes, a magazine whose pages only the powerful of this world fall on.

The richest Russian businessman occupies 34 place in the updated "hit parade". This man is the "iron" magnate Metallinvest and the general director of the largest holding Gazprom Alisher Usmanov. To date, his condition is more than 17 billion US dollars. Following him goes Mikhail Fridman, and closes the top three Russian billionaires Leonid Mikhelson. The state of each is estimated at 16.5 and 15.4 billion, respectively.

It is worth saying that even in the aggregate, the three leaders of the list "The richest man in the world" will not be able to catch up with John Rockefeller, whose fortune was almost $ 300 billion.