{"id":26124,"date":"2009-03-11T18:59:41","date_gmt":"2009-03-11T18:59:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2009\/03\/11\/gates-richest-person-in-the-wo\/"},"modified":"2009-03-11T18:59:41","modified_gmt":"2009-03-11T18:59:41","slug":"gates-richest-person-in-the-wo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/11\/gates-richest-person-in-the-wo\/","title":{"rendered":"Gates = Richest Person In The World"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bill Gates is now (once again) the richest person in the world, even though he lost a personal 18 billion dollars since last year.<\/p>\n

In other words, Bill Gates lost more than the GNP of Kenya, El Salvador, Iraq, Qatar and about a hundred other countries. If Bill gaes was a country, he’d be about the fiftieth richest, give or take. (For reference, there seems to be about 224 countries in the world at the moment.)
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Bill Gates is now (once again) the richest person in the world, even though he lost a personal 18 billion dollars since last year. In other words, Bill Gates lost more than the GNP of Kenya, El Salvador, Iraq, Qatar and about a hundred other countries. If Bill gaes was a country, he’d be about … Continue reading Gates = Richest Person In The World<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5020],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-6Nm","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26124"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26124\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}