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 (continues)
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.
