Who stole from you? There's a reason most Americans and sliding into poverty. It isn't technology or lack of hard work - people have stolen from them, period. Using the government for special subsidies, tax credits and bailouts - these people have not just profited from being lucky in the marketplace, they've stolen from others.
So who are these 400 Mubaraks Moore is speaking of?
With a few exceptions they became rich doing nothing (inheritance) and nothing good (speculating) NONE have paid their fair share of taxes though most have enjoyed stealing from you in various ways (especially the speculators):
1. Bill Gates
$54 B 55 Medina, WA Microsoft
2. Warren Buffett
$45 B 80 Omaha, NE Berkshire Hathaway/SPECULATING
3 Larry Ellison
$27 B 66 Woodside, CA Oracle
4 Christy Walton
$24 B 55 Jackson, WY Walmart/INHERITANCE
5 Charles Koch
$21.5 B 75 Wichita, KS energy/INHERITANCE
5. David Koch
$21.5 B 70 New York, NY energy/INHERITANCE
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7. Jim Walton
$20.1 B 62 Bentonville, AR Walmart/INHERITANCE
8. Alice Walton
$20 B 61 Fort Worth, TX Walmart/INHERITANCE
9. S. Robson Walton
$19.7 B 66 Bentonville, AR Walmart/INHERITANCE
10 Michael Bloomberg
$18 B 68 New York, NY Bloomberg
11 Larry Page
$15 B 37 Palo Alto, CA Google
11 Sergey Brin
$15 B 37 San Francisco, CA Google
13 Sheldon Adelson
$14.7 B 77 Las Vegas, NV GAMBLING/GAMBLING RESORTS
14 George Soros
$14.2 B 80 Westchester, NY hedge funds/SPECULATING
15 Michael Dell
$14 B 45 Austin, TX Dell
16 Steve Ballmer
$13.1 B 54 Seattle, WA Microsoft
17 Paul Allen
$12.7 B 57 Mercer Island, WA Microsoft, investments
18 Jeff Bezos
$12.6 B 46 Seattle, WA Amazon
19 Anne Cox Chambers
$12.5 B 90 Atlanta, GA Cox Enterprises/INHERITANCE
20 John Paulson
$12.4 B 54 New York, NY hedge funds/SHORTED HOUSING MARKET
21 Donald Bren
$12 B 78 Newport Beach, CA real estate/SPECULATING
22 Abigail Johnson
$11.3 B 48 Boston, MA Fidelity/INHERITANCE
23 Phil Knight
$11.1 B 72 Beaverton, OR Nike
24 Carl Icahn
$11 B 74 New York, NY leveraged buyouts/SPECULATING
24 Ron Perelman
$11 B 67 New York, NY leveraged buyouts/SPECULATING
26 Forrest Mars
$10 B 79 Big Horn, WY candy, pet food/INHERITANCE
26 John Mars
$10 B 74 Jackson, WY candy, pet food/INHERITANCE
26 Jacqueline Mars
$10 B 71 The Plains, VA candy, pet food/INHERITANCE
29 George Kaiser
$9.4 B 68 Tulsa, OK oil & gas, banking
30 James Simons
$8.7 B 72 East Setauket, NY hedge funds/SPECULATING
31 Len Blavatnik
$7.5 B 53 London Access Industries
32 Steve Cohen
$7.3 B 54 Greenwich, CT hedge funds/SPECULATING
33 Edward Johnson
$7.1 B 80 Boston, MA Fidelity
34 Philip Anschutz
$7 B 70 Denver, CO Investments/INHERITANCE
35 Mark Zuckerberg
$6.9 B 26 Palo Alto, CA Facebook
35 James Goodnight
$6.9 B 67 Cary, NC SAS Institute
37 Jack Taylor & family
$6.5 B 88 St. Louis, MO Enterprise Rent-A-Car
38 Rupert Murdoch
$6.2 B 79 New York, NY News Corp/INHERITANCE
38 Jim Kennedy
$6.2 B 62 Atlanta, GA Cox Enterprises/INHERITANCE
38 Blair Parry-Okeden
$6.2 B 59 Scone Cox Enterprises/INHERITANCE
38 Samuel Newhouse
$6.2 B 82 New York, NY publishing/INHERITANCE
42 Steve Jobs
$6.1 B 55 Palo Alto, CA Apple, Pixar
43 Andrew Beal
$6 B 57 Dallas, TX Beal Bank, real estate
44 Eli Broad
$5.8 B 77 Los Angeles, CA Investments
44 Harold Hamm
$5.8 B 64 Oklahoma City, OK Continental Resources
46 Patrick Soon-Shiong
$5.6 B 58 Los Angeles, CA generic drugs
47 Pierre Omidyar
$5.5 B 43 Honolulu, HI Ebay
48 Eric Schmidt
$5.45 B 55 Atherton, CA Google
49 Donald Newhouse
$5.4 B 80 Somerset County, NJ publishing/INHERITANCE
50 Charles Butt
$5.3 B 72 San Antonio, TX supermarkets/INHERITANCE
51 John Menard
$5.2 B 70 Eau Claire, WI Retail
51 Richard Kinder
$5.2 B 65 Houston, TX pipelines/ENRON
51 Charles Ergen
$5.2 B 57 Denver, CO EchoStar
54 David Geffen
$5.1 B 67 Malibu, CA movies, music
55 Harold Simmons
$5 B 79 Dallas, TX Investments/SPECULATING
55 Ray Dalio
$5 B 61 Greenwich, CT hedge funds/SPECULATING
57 Frederik G.H. Meijer
$4.9 B 90 Grand Rapids, MI supermarkets/INHERITANCE
58 Ira Rennert
$4.5 B 76 New York, NY Investments/SPECULATING
58 Dennis Washington
$4.5 B 76 Missoula, MT construction, mining
60 Ralph Lauren
$4.4 B 70 New York, NY fashion and retail
60 Sam Zell
$4.4 B 69 Chicago, IL real estate, private equity/SPECULATING
62 Richard DeVos
$4.3 B 84 Ada, MI Alticor
62 Richard LeFrak & Family
$4.3 B 65 New York, NY real estate/INHERITANCE
62 David Tepper
$4.3 B 53 Milburn, NJ hedge funds/SPECULATING
62 Ray Lee Hunt
$4.3 B 67 Dallas, TX Oil, real estate/INHERITANCE
66 Leonard Lauder
$4.2 B 77 New York, NY Estee Lauder/INHERITANCE
66 Lester Crown & family
$4.2 B 85 Wilmette, IL Investments/INHERITANCE
66 John Paul DeJoria
$4.2 B 66 Austin, TX hair products, tequila
69 Robert Rowling
$4.1 B 57 Dallas, TX Investments/INHERITANCE
69 Bruce Kovner
$4.1 B 65 New York, NY hedge funds/SPECULATING
69 Stephen Schwarzman
$4.1 B 63 New York, NY Investments/SPECULATING
69 Micky Arison
$4.1 B 61 Bal Harbour, FL Carnival Cruises/INHERITANCE
69 Roger Wang
$4.1 B 61 Nanjing, Jiangsu Retail
74 Robert Bass
$4 B 62 Fort Worth, TX oil, investments/INHERITANCE
74 Dirk Ziff
$4 B 46 New York, NY hedge funds/INHERITANCE
74 Robert Ziff
$4 B 44 New York, NY hedge funds/INHERITANCE
74 Daniel Ziff
$4 B 38 New York, NY hedge funds/INHERITANCE
74 Charles Johnson
$4 B 77 San Mateo, CA Franklin Resources/INHERITANCE
79 Marion MacMillan Pictet
$3.8 B 77 Hamilton Cargill Inc.INHERITANCE
79 Whitney MacMillan
$3.8 B 81 Minneapolis, MN Cargill Inc.INHERITANCE
79 Cargill MacMillan
$3.8 B 83 Indian Springs, CA Cargill Inc.INHERITANCE
79 Pauline MacMillan Keinath
$3.8 B 76 St. Louis, MO Cargill Inc.INHERITANCE
83 Charles Schwab
$3.7 B 73 Atherton, CA stock brokerage/INHERITANCE
83 Rupert Johnson
$3.7 B 69 San Mateo, CA Franklin Resources/INHERITANCE
85 Ray Dolby
$3.6 B 77 San Francisco, CA Dolby Laboratories
85 Thomas Frist
$3.6 B 72 Nashville, TN HCA Healthcare
87 Victor Fung & family
$3.55 B 64 Hong Kong distribution
88 Leonard Stern
$3.5 B 72 New York, NY real estate/SPECULATING
88 Gordon Moore
$3.5 B 81 Woodside, CA Intel
90 Henry Kravis
$3.4 B 66 New York, NY leveraged buyouts/SPECULATING
90 William Koch
$3.4 B 70 Palm Beach, FL oil, investments/INHERITANCE
90 Henry Ross Perot Sr
$3.4 B 80 Dallas, TX computer services, real estate
90 Haim Saban
$3.4 B 65 Beverly Hills, CA television
90 John Sall
$3.4 B 62 Cary, NC SAS Institute
95 John Sobrato & family
$3.3 B 71 Atherton, CA real estate/SPECULATING
95 John Arnold
$3.3 B 36 Houston, TX hedge funds/SPECULATING
97 George Lucas
$3.25 B 66 Marin County, CA Star Wars
98 Ann Walton Kroenke
$3.2 B 61 Columbia, MO Walmart/INHERITANCE
98 Daniel Och
$3.2 B 49 New York, NY hedge funds/SPECULATING
98 Ron Burkle
$3.2 B 57 London supermarkets, investments/SPECULATING
101 Scott Duncan
$3.1 B 27 Houston, TX pipelines/INHERITANCE
101 Stephen Ross
$3.1 B 70 New York, NY real estate/SPECULATING
101 George Roberts
$3.1 B 67 San Francisco, CA leveraged buyouts/SPECULATING
101 Edward Lampert
$3.1 B 48 Greenwich, CT Investments/SPECULATING
101 William Cook
$3.1 B 79 Bloomington, IN medical devices
101 Robert Holding
$3.1 B 83 Sun Valley, ID oil, resorts
101 Randa Williams
$3.1 B 49 Houston, TX pipelines/INHERITANCE
101 Dannine Avara
$3.1 B 46 Houston, TX pipelines/INHERITANCE
101 Milane Frantz
$3.1 B 41 Houston, TX pipelines/INHERITANCE
110 Paul Tudor Jones
$3 B 56 Greenwich, CT hedge funds/SPECULATING
110 Terrence Pegula
$3 B 59 Boca Raton, FL East Resources
110 Trevor Rees-Jones
$3 B 59 Dallas, TX oil & gas
110 Steven Spielberg
$3 B 63 Pacific Palisades, CA movies
110 Bruce Halle
$3 B 80 Paradise Valley, AZ Discount Tire
110 James Jannard
$3 B 61 San Juan Islands, WA Oakley, Red Digital
110 Leon Black
$3 B 59 New York, NY private equity/SPECULATING
110 Ted Lerner
$3 B 84 Washington, DC real estate/SPECULATING
110 John Malone
$3 B 69 Parker, CO cable television
119 Riley Bechtel
$2.9 B 58 San Francisco, CA engineering,construction/INHERITANCE
119 Stanley Druckenmiller
$2.9 B 57 Pittsburgh, PA hedge funds/SPECULATING
119 Leslie Wexner
$2.9 B 73 New Albany, OH Limited Brands
119 Kirk Kerkorian
$2.9 B 93 Los Angeles, CA investments,GAMBLING/SPECULATING
119 Stephen Bechtel
$2.9 B 85 San Francisco, CA engineering,construction/INHERITANCE
124 Joan Tisch
$2.8 B 84 New York, NY Loews/INHERITANCE
124 Sumner Redstone
$2.8 B 87 Beverly Hills, CA Viacom
124 Barbara Piasecka Johnson
$2.8 B 73 Monte Carlo Johnson & Johnson/INHERITANCE
124 Ronald Lauder
$2.8 B 66 New York, NY Estee Lauder/INHERITANCE
124 Philip Falcone
$2.8 B 48 New York, NY hedge funds/SPECULATING
124 Peter Kellogg
$2.8 B 68 Short Hills, NJ Investments/INHERITANCE
130 Patrick McGovern
$2.7 B 73 Hollis, NH IDG
130 David Murdock
$2.7 B 87 Los Angeles, CA Dole, real estate
130 Stanley Kroenke
$2.7 B 63 Columbia, MO sports, real estate
130 Oprah Winfrey
$2.7 B 56 Chicago, IL television
130 Steven Udvar-Hazy
$2.7 B 64 Beverly Hills, CA International Lease Finance
135 Timothy Headington
$2.65 B 60 Dallas, TX oil & gas, investments/INHERITANCE
136 David Green
$2.6 B 68 Oklahoma City, OK Hobby Lobby
136 James Leprino
$2.6 B 72 Denver, CO cheese
136 Nancy Walton Laurie
$2.6 B 59 Henderson, NV Walmart/INHERITANCE
136 David Sun
$2.6 B 58 Orange County, CA computer memory
136 Edgar Bronfman Sr
$2.6 B 81 New York, NY Seagram's liquor/INHERITANCE
136 Mitchell Rales
$2.6 B 54 Washington, DC Danaher Corp
136 John Tu
$2.6 B 68 Los Angeles, CA computer memory
136 Malcolm Glazer & family
$2.6 B 82 Palm Beach, FL sports teams, real estate
144 Charles Dolan
$2.5 B 83 Oyster Bay, NY Cablevision Systems
144 Warren Stephens
$2.5 B 53 Little Rock, AR Stephens Inc.INHERITANCE
144 Richard Schulze
$2.5 B 69 Edina, MN Best Buy
144 Igor Olenicoff
$2.5 B 68 Lighthouse Point, FL real estateSPECULATING
144 Donald Schneider
$2.5 B 74 Green Bay, WI trucking/INHERITANCE
144 Archie Aldis Emmerson
$2.5 B 81 Redding, CA timberland, lumber mills
144 Mark Cuban
$2.5 B 52 Dallas, TX Broadcast.com
144 Mary Alice Dorrance Malone
$2.5 B 60 Coatesville, PA Campbell Soup/INHERITANCE
144 William Hilton
$2.5 B 82 Los Angeles, CA hotels, GAMBLING/INHERITANCE
153 John Anderson
$2.4 B 93 Bel Air, CA Investments
153 David Rockefeller
$2.4 B 95 New York, NY Standard Oil, banking/INHERITANCE
153 Ty Warner
$2.4 B 66 Chicago, IL Beanie Babies
153 Donald Trump
$2.4 B 64 New York, NY real estate/INHERITANCE
153 Martha Ingram & family
$2.4 B 75 Nashville, TN Ingram Industries/INHERITANCE
153 Tom Gores
$2.4 B 46 Beverly Hills, CA private equity/SPECULATING
159 Ken Griffin
$2.3 B 41 Chicago, IL hedge funds/SPECULATING
159 Richard Rainwater
$2.3 B 66 Fort Worth, TX real estate, energy, insurance/SPECULATING
159 Doris Fisher
$2.3 B 79 San Francisco, CA Gap
159 Steven Rales
$2.3 B 59 Washington, DC Danaher Corp
163 Rodney Lewis
$2.25 B 56 San Antonio, TX Natural gas
164 Nicolas Berggruen
$2.2 B 49 New York, NY Investments/INHERITANCE
164 Julian Robertson
$2.2 B 78 New York, NY hedge funds/SPECULATING
164 A. Jerrold Perenchio
$2.2 B 79 Bel Air, CA Univision
164 David Shaw
$2.2 B 59 New York, NY hedge funds/SPECULATING
164 Glen Taylor
$2.2 B 69 Mankato, MN printing
164 Jack Dangermond
$2.2 B 65 Redlands, CA mapping software
170 Ronda Stryker
$2.1 B 56 Portage, MI Stryker Corp.INHERITANCE
170 Bill Gross
$2.1 B 66 Laguna Beach, CA BondsSPECULATING
170 William Randolph Hearst III
$2.1 B 61 San Francisco, CA Hearst Corp/INHERITANCE
170 Robert Friedland
$2.1 B 60 Singapore Mining
170 Edward Roski
$2.1 B 71 Los Angeles, CA real estate/INHERITANCE
170 Michael Milken
$2.1 B 64 Los Angeles, CA Investments/SPECULATING
170 Stewart Rahr
$2.1 B 64 New York, NY Kinray
170 Diane Hendricks
$2.1 B 63 Afton, WI ABC Supply/INHERITANCE
170 Jeremy Jacobs
$2.1 B 70 East Aurora, NY sports concessions/INHERITANCE
170 Henry Hillman
$2.1 B 91 Pittsburgh, PA Investments/INHERITANCE
170 William Wrigley
$2.1 B 46 Lake Forest, IL chewing gum/INHERITANCE
170 H. Wayne Huizenga
$2.1 B 72 Fort Lauderdale, FL Investments
182 Herbert Kohler & family
$2 B 71 Kohler, WI plumbing fixtures/INHERITANCE
182 Lee Bass
$2 B 54 Fort Worth, TX oil, investments/INHERITANCE
182 George Mitchell
$2 B 91 The Woodlands, TX Mitchell Energy
182 Sid Bass
$2 B 67 Fort Worth, TX oil, investments/INHERITANCE
182 Gordon Getty
$2 B 76 San Francisco, CA Getty Oil/INHERITANCE
182 Lynn Schusterman
$2 B 71 Tulsa, OK oil & gas, investments/INHERITANCE
182 Alfred Taubman
$2 B 86 Bloomfield Hills, MI real estate/SPECULATING
182 Phillip Ruffin
$2 B 75 Las Vegas, NV GAMBLING, real estate/SPECULATING
182 David Rubenstein
$2 B 61 Bethesda, MD leveraged buyouts/SPECULATING
182 Phillip Frost
$2 B 73 Miami, FL pharmaceuticals
182 William Conway
$2 B 61 McLean, VA leveraged buyouts/SPECULATING
182 Daniel D'Aniello
$2 B 64 Vienna, VA leveraged buyouts/SPECULATING
182 Robert Rich
$2 B 69 Islamorada, FL Rich Products Corporation/INHERITANCE
182 Peter Peterson
$2 B 84 New York, NY Blackstone Group/SPECULATING
182 Mortimer Zuckerman
$2 B 73 New York, NY real estate, media/SPECULATING
182 H. Fisk Johnson
$2 B 52 Racine, WI SC Johnson & Sons/INHERITANCE
182 S. Curtis Johnson
$2 B 55 Racine, WI SC Johnson & Sons/INHERITANCE
182 Winnie Johnson-Marquart
$2 B 51 Virginia Beach, VA SC Johnson & SonsINHERITANCE
182 Helen Johnson-Leipold
$2 B 53 Racine, WI SC Johnson & SonsINHERITANCE
182 Imogene Powers Johnson
$2 B 80 Racine, WI SC Johnson & Sons/INHERITANCE
182 Bennett Dorrance
$2 B 64 Paradise Valley, AZ Campbell Soup/INHERITANCE
182 Jerry Jones
$2 B 67 Dallas, TX Dallas Cowboys
182 Amos Hostetter
$2 B 73 Boston, MA cable television
205 Robert E Turner
$1.9 B 71 Lamont, FL cable television
205 James Cargill
$1.9 B 61 Birchwood, WI Cargill Inc.INHERITANCE
205 Austen Cargill
$1.9 B 59 Livingston, MT Cargill Inc.INHERITANCE
205 Marianne Liebmann
$1.9 B 57 Bozeman, MT Cargill, Inc.INHERITANCE
205 Walter Scott
$1.9 B 79 Omaha, NE construction, telecom
205 Jude Reyes
$1.9 B 55 Kenilworth, IL Reyes Holdings
205 J. Christopher Reyes
$1.9 B 56 Lake Forest, IL Reyes Holdings
205 Wilbur Ross
$1.9 B 72 Palm Beach, FL InvestmentsSPECULATING
205 Michael Jaharis
$1.9 B 82 New York, NY pharmaceuticals
205 Steve Wynn
$1.9 B 68 Las Vegas, NV GAMBLING, hotels
205 Alan Casden
$1.9 B 64 Beverly Hills, CA real estate/SPECULATING
205 Jeffrey Hildebrand
$1.9 B 51 Houston, TX oil
217 Albert Ueltschi
$1.85 B 93 Vero Beach, FL FlightSafety
217 Jess Jackson
$1.85 B 80 Geyserville, CA Jackson Family Wines
217 Israel Englander
$1.85 B 62 New York, NY hedge funds/SPECULATING
217 Frederick Smith
$1.85 B 66 Memphis, TN FedEx
221 Austin Hearst
$1.8 B 58 New York, NY Hearst Corp/INHERITANCE
221 Phoebe Hearst Cooke
$1.8 B 83 San Francisco, CA Hearst Corp/INHERITANCE
221 George Hearst Jr
$1.8 B 83 Los Angeles, CA Hearst Corp/INHERITANCE
221 Marc Benioff
$1.8 B 46 San Francisco, CA Salesforce.com
221 Jerry Speyer
$1.8 B 70 New York, NY real estate/SPECULATING
221 Kelcy Warren
$1.8 B 54 Dallas, TX pipelines
221 James Coulter
$1.8 B 50 San Francisco, CA leveraged buyouts/SPECULATING
221 Fred DeLuca
$1.8 B 63 Fort Lauderdale, FL Subway
221 Peter Buck
$1.8 B 79 Danbury, CT Subway
221 Jim Davis
$1.8 B 67 Newton, MA New Balance
221 Jeffrey Greene
$1.8 B 55 Palm Beach, FL real estate/SHORTED HOUSING MARKET
221 Neil Bluhm
$1.8 B 72 Chicago, IL real estate/SPECULATING
221 David Bonderman
$1.8 B 67 Fort Worth, TX leveraged buyouts/SPECULATING
221 Dean White
$1.8 B 87 Crown Point, IN billboards, hotels
221 David Hearst Jr
$1.8 B 65 Los Angeles, CA Hearst CorpINHERITANCE
236 Charles Munger
$1.75 B 86 Los Angeles, CA Berkshire HathawaySPECULATING
236 Stanley Hubbard
$1.75 B 77 St. Paul, MN DirecTV/INHERITANCE
238 Clemmie Spangler
$1.7 B 78 Charlotte, NC Investments/INHERITANCE
238 Bradley Hughes
$1.7 B 77 Lexington, KY Public Storage
238 Thomas Siebel
$1.7 B 57 Woodside, CA Siebel Systems
238 Michael Ilitch & family
$1.7 B 81 Detroit, MI pizza
238 Henry Samueli
$1.7 B 56 Newport Beach, CA Broadcom
238 John Catsimatidis
$1.7 B 62 New York, NY oil, real estate, supermarkets
238 Alexander Rovt
$1.7 B 58 New York, NY fertilizer
238 Louis Bacon
$1.7 B 52 London hedge funds/SPECULATING
238 Alec Gores
$1.7 B 57 Beverly Hills, CA private equity/SPECULATING
238 Clayton Mathile
$1.7 B 69 Dayton, OH Iams
238 Randal Kirk
$1.7 B 56 Radford, VA pharmaceuticals
238 Thomas Kaplan
$1.7 B 48 New York, NY SPECULATING
250 Craig McCaw
$1.65 B 61 Seattle, WA McCaw Cellular/INHERITANCE
250 Isaac Perlmutter
$1.65 B 67 Palm Beach, FL Marvel
252 Glenn Dubin
$1.6 B 53 New York, NY hedge funds/SPECULATING
252 William Connor
$1.6 B 60 Hong Kong supply-chain services/INHERITANCE
252 S. Truett Cathy
$1.6 B 89 Atlanta, GA Chick-fil-A
252 Bharat Desai & family
$1.6 B 57 Fisher Island, FL Syntel
252 Stephen Mandel
$1.6 B 54 Greenwich, CT hedge funds/SPECULATING
252 George Argyros
$1.6 B 73 Newport Beach, CA real estate, investments/SPECULATING
252 Ken Fisher
$1.6 B 59 Woodside, CA money management/SPECULATING
252 Manuel Moroun
$1.6 B 83 Grosse Pointe Shores, MI transportation
252 Leandro Rizzuto
$1.6 B 72 Sheridan, WY Conair
252 Barbara Carlson Gage & family
$1.6 B 68 Minneapolis, MN Carlson Cos.INHERITANCE
252 Thomas Pritzker
$1.6 B 60 Chicago, IL hotels, investmentsINHERITANCE
252 Ted Forstmann
$1.6 B 70 New York, NY leveraged buyouts/SPECULATING
252 Marilyn Carlson Nelson & family
$1.6 B 71 Minneapolis, MN Carlson Cos/INHERITANCE
252 Michael Heisley
$1.6 B 73 Jupiter Island, FL Manufacturing
266 John Marriott
$1.55 B 78 Potomac, MD hotels/INHERITANCE
266 John Doerr
$1.55 B 59 Woodside, CA venture capital
266 Wilma Tisch
$1.55 B 83 New York, NY Loews/INHERITANCE
269 Min Kao
$1.5 B 61 Mission Hills, KS navigation equipment
269 Anita Zucker
$1.5 B 58 Charleston, SC chemicals/INHERITANCE
269 Penny Pritzker
$1.5 B 51 Chicago, IL hotels, investments/INHERITANCE
269 Thomas Friedkin
$1.5 B 75 Houston, TX Gulf States Toyota/INHERITANCE
269 Leon G. Cooperman
$1.5 B 67 Short Hills, NJ hedge funds/SPECULATING
269 Robert Kraft
$1.5 B 69 Brookline, MA New England Patriots
269 Richard Peery
$1.5 B 70 Palo Alto, CA real estate/SPECULATING
269 Charles Brandes
$1.5 B 67 San Diego, CA money management/SPECULATING
269 S. Daniel Abraham
$1.5 B 86 Palm Beach, FL Slim-Fast
269 Edward Bass
$1.5 B 65 Fort Worth, TX oil, investments/INHERITANCE
269 Brad Kelley
$1.5 B 53 Nashville, TN tobacco
269 Henry Nicholas
$1.5 B 51 Newport Coast, CA Broadcom
269 Richard Marriott
$1.5 B 71 Potomac, MD hotels/INHERITANCE
269 David Gottesman
$1.5 B 84 Rye, NY Investments/SPECULATING
269 Norman Braman
$1.5 B 78 Miami, FL art, car dealerships
269 Bernard Marcus
$1.5 B 81 Atlanta, GA Home Depot
269 Joe Jamail
$1.5 B 84 Houston, TX Lawsuits
269 George Lindemann & family
$1.5 B 74 Palm Beach, FL Investments
269 Edward DeBartolo
$1.5 B 63 Tampa, FL shopping centers/INHERITANCE
288 Kavitark Ram Shriram
$1.45 B 53 Mountain View, CA Venture capital, Google
288 Drayton McLane
$1.45 B 74 Temple, TX Wal-Mart, logistics/INHERITANCE
290 John Pritzker
$1.4 B 57 San Francisco, CA hotels, investments/INHERITANCE
290 Michael Price
$1.4 B 58 Far Hills, NJ Investments/INHERITANCE
290 Gary Michelson
$1.4 B 61 Los Angeles, CA medical patents
290 Robert McNair
$1.4 B 73 Houston, TX energy, sports
290 John Arrillaga
$1.4 B 73 Portola Valley, CA real estate/SPECULATING
290 Romesh T. Wadhwani
$1.4 B 63 Palo Alto, CA Software
290 Dustin Moskovitz
$1.4 B 26 San Francisco, CA Facebook
290 T. Boone Pickens
$1.4 B 82 Dallas, TX oil & gas, investments/SPECULATING
290 Gerald J. Ford
$1.4 B 66 Dallas, TX banking
290 Anthony Pritzker
$1.4 B 49 Los Angeles, CA hotels, investments/INHERITANCE
290 Jay Robert (J.B.) Pritzker
$1.4 B 45 Evanston, IL hotels, investments/INHERITANCE
290 Thomas Peterffy
$1.4 B 66 Greenwich, CT Interactive Brokers Group
290 Henry Ross Perot Jr
$1.4 B 51 Dallas, TX computer services, real estate/INHERITANCE
290 James Irsay
$1.4 B 51 Carmel, IN Indianapolis Colts
290 Joseph Craft & family
$1.4 B 59 Tulsa, OK Alliance Holdings
290 Roger Penske
$1.4 B 73 Birmingham, MI cars
306 Ron Baron
$1.35 B 67 New York, NY money managment/SPECULATING
306 Jonathan Nelson
$1.35 B 54 Providence, RI leveraged buyouts/SPECULATING
308 James Kim & Family
$1.3 B 74 Bryn Mawr, PA microchips/INHERITANCE
308 James Pritzker
$1.3 B 59 Chicago, IL hotels, investments/INHERITANCE
308 Billy Joe McCombs
$1.3 B 82 San Antonio, TX radio, oil, real estate
308 John Morgridge
$1.3 B 77 Portola Valley, CA Cisco
308 Stephen Bisciotti
$1.3 B 50 Millersville, MD OUTSOURCING, football
308 Ray Davis
$1.3 B 67 Dallas, TX pipelines
308 Thomas Lee
$1.3 B 66 New York, NY leveraged buyouts/SPECULATING
308 Richard Chilton Jr
$1.3 B 52 Darien, CT hedge funds/SPECULATING
308 Marc Lasry
$1.3 B 50 New York, NY hedge funds/SPECULATING
308 Linda Pritzker
$1.3 B 56 St. Ignatius, MT hotels, investments/INHERITANCE
308 Karen Pritzker
$1.3 B 52 Brandford, CT hotels, investments/INHERITANCE
308 Jean (Gigi) Pritzker
$1.3 B 48 Chicago, IL hotels, investments/INHERITANCE
308 Daniel Pritzker
$1.3 B 51 Marin County, CA hotels, investments/INHERITANCE
308 Christopher Goldsbury
$1.3 B 67 San Antonio, TX salsa/INHERITANCE
308 James Dinan
$1.3 B 51 New York, NY hedge funds/SPECULATING
308 Richard Hayne
$1.3 B 63 Philadelphia, PA Urban Outfitters
308 Leon Charney
$1.3 B 69 New York, NY real estate/SPECULATING
308 Vinod Khosla
$1.3 B 55 Portola Valley, CA Sun Microsystems, venture capital
308 Michael Moritz
$1.3 B 56 San Francisco, CA venture capital
308 Evgeny (Eugene) Shvidler
$1.3 B 46 London Millhouse LLC/RUSSIAN MOB
308 Pat Stryker
$1.3 B 54 Fort Collins, CO Stryker Corp/INHERITANCE
308 Carl Berg
$1.3 B 73 Atherton, CA real estate/SPECULATING
330 John Fisher
$1.25 B 49 San Francisco, CA Gap/INHERITANCE
330 Herbert Simon
$1.25 B 75 Indianapolis, IN real estate/SPECULATING
332 Jon Stryker
$1.2 B 52 Kalamazoo, MI Stryker Corp.INHERITANCE
332 David Duffield
$1.2 B 70 Blackhawk, CA PeopleSoft
332 C. Dean Metropoulos
$1.2 B 64 Greenwich, CT Investments
332 Joseph Mansueto
$1.2 B 54 Chicago, IL Morningstar
332 Tom Golisano
$1.2 B 68 Naples, FL Paychex
332 Henry Swieca
$1.2 B 53 New York, NY hedge fundsSPECULATING
332 Alfred Mann
$1.2 B 84 Las Vegas, NV medical devices
332 Bernard Saul
$1.2 B 78 Chevy Chase, MD Banking, real estate/SPECULATING
332 Aubrey McClendon
$1.2 B 51 Oklahoma City, OK Natural gas
332 Joshua Harris
$1.2 B 45 New York, NY leveraged buyouts/SPECULATING
332 Marc Rowan
$1.2 B 48 New York, NY leveraged buyouts/SPECULATING
332 Gary Magness
$1.2 B 56 Denver, CO cable, investments/INHERITANCE
332 Scott Cook
$1.2 B 58 Woodside, CA Intuit
332 Johnelle Hunt
$1.2 B 78 Fayetteville, AR transportation/INHERITANCE
332 Meg Whitman
$1.2 B 54 Atherton, CA Ebay
332 Malone Mitchell
$1.2 B 49 Oklahoma City, OK oil & gas
332 Todd Wagner
$1.2 B 50 Dallas, TX Broadcast.com
332 Barry Diller
$1.2 B 68 New York, NY IAC/InterActiveCorp
332 Thomas Barrack
$1.2 B 63 Los Angeles, CA Colony Capital/SPECULATING
332 Charlotte Colket Weber
$1.2 B 67 Ocala, FL Campbell Soup/INHERITANCE
332 Sheldon Solow
$1.2 B 82 New York, NY real estate/SPECULATING
332 Arthur Blank
$1.2 B 68 Atlanta, GA Home Depot
332 Alfred James Clark
$1.2 B 82 Vero Beach, FL construction
332 Richard Scaife
$1.2 B 78 Pittsburgh, PA Investments/INHERITANCE
356 Alan Gerry
$1.15 B 81 Liberty, NY cable television
356 Alexander Knaster
$1.15 B 51 London oil, telecom, banking
356 Peter Sperling
$1.15 B 50 Phoenix, AZ Apollo Group/SPECULATING
356 Jerry Yang
$1.15 B 41 Los Altos Hills, CA Yahoo
356 David Filo
$1.15 B 44 Palo Alto, CA Yahoo
356 Eduardo Saverin
$1.15 B 28 Miami, FL Facebook
356 Bruce Karsh
$1.15 B 55 Los Angeles, CA money management/SPECULATING
356 Howard Marks
$1.15 B 64 Los Angeles, CA money management/SPECULATING
356 Kenneth Adams
$1.15 B 87 Houston, TX oil
365 Peter Thiel
$1.1 B 43 San Francisco, CA Paypal, Facebook
365 Steven Roth
$1.1 B 68 New York, NY real estate/SPECULATING
365 Matthew Bucksbaum & Family
$1.1 B 84 Chicago, IL real estate/SPECULATING
365 Dan Snyder
$1.1 B 45 Potomac, MD Washington Redskins
365 Frank Fertitta
$1.1 B 48 Las Vegas, NV GAMBLING, Ultimate Fighting Championship
365 William Moncrief
$1.1 B 90 Fort Worth, TX oil/INHERITANCE
365 Steve Case
$1.1 B 52 McLean, VA AOL
365 Nelson Peltz
$1.1 B 68 Bedford, NY Investments/SPECULATING
365 Kenny Troutt
$1.1 B 62 Dallas, TX Excel Communications
365 Alexander Spanos
$1.1 B 87 Stockton, CA real estate/SPECULATING
365 Sidney Kimmel
$1.1 B 82 New York, NY Jones Apparel
365 William Macaulay
$1.1 B 65 Greenwich, CT energy investments/SPECULATING
365 Hope Hill van Beuren & family
$1.1 B 76 Middletown, RI Campbell Soup/INHERITANCE
365 Kenneth Langone
$1.1 B 75 Sands Point, NY Investments/SPECULATING
365 Edmund Ansin
$1.1 B 74 Miami, FL Sunbeam Broadcasting/INHERITANCE
365 Irwin Jacobs
$1.1 B 76 La Jolla, CA Qualcomm
365 Peter Lewis
$1.1 B 76 Coconut Grove, FL Progressive Corp/INHERITANCE
382 John Sperling
$1.05 B 89 Phoenix, AZ Apollo Group/SPECULATING
382 Tom Benson
$1.05 B 83 New Orleans, LA NFL Team
382 Elaine Wynn
$1.05 B 67 Las Vegas, NV hotels/DIVORCE SETTLEMENT
385 Samuel Wyly
$1 B 75 Dallas, TX Investments/SPECULATING
385 Nicholas Pritzker
$1 B 66 Chicago, IL hotels, investments/INHERITANCE
385 Tamara Gustavson
$1 B 48 Malibu, CA Public Storage/INHERITANCE
385 Donald Hall & family
$1 B 82 Mission Hills, KS Hallmark/INHERITANCE
385 Michael Krasny
$1 B 57 Highland Park, IL CDW Corp
385 Lorenzo Fertitta
$1 B 41 Las Vegas, NV GAMBLING, Ultimate Fighting Championship
385 Patrick Ryan
$1 B 73 Winnetka, IL insurance
385 George Joseph
$1 B 89 Los Angeles, CA insurance
385 Arturo Moreno
$1 B 64 Phoenix, AZ billboards
385 Thomas Secunda
$1 B 56 Croton-on-Hudson, NY Bloomberg
385 Jeffrey Lurie
$1 B 59 Haverford, PA Philadelphia Eagles
385 William Ford Sr.
$1 B 85 Grosse Pointe Shores, MI Ford Motor Co/INHERITANCE
385 Darwin Deason
$1 B 70 Dallas, TX Xerox
385 Herbert Allen & family
$1 B 70 New York, NY investment banking/INHERITANCE
385 John Brown
$1 B 76 Kalamazoo, MI Stryker Corp.
385 John Edson
$1 B 78 Seattle, WA leisure craft
There you have it ladies and gentlemen, the 400 people (mostly men) who own you and therefore have the right to steal from you.
As you may have noticed most did notpull themselves up by their own bootstraps in fact they did nothing to become your masters other than being born - a nice harkening back to the days of yore a Moneyed Aristocracy who enjoys phenomenal privileges simply by being born into the right family.
The second most prominent group are the Speculators most of whom work to make the Moneyed Aristocracy richer through hedge funds and other financial instutions. Speculators in FIRE (finance, insurance, real estate) add nothing to the Real economy and in fact often create crisis - savings and loan, dot com bubble, financial crisis of 2007 etc. Among the speculators are two men who became billionaires by betting against the housing market (Paulson, Greene). Profiting from your pain.
So parents, don't tell your children they can make it, because if they were going to they most likely already would have.
Now the question is how do you remove this band of aristocrats and buckaneers from off your back?
Is the only solution revolution?