福布斯：2009年美国富人榜50强

Rank	Name	Net Worth ($mil)	Age	Residence	Source
1	William Gates III	50,000	53	Medina	Microsoft
2	Warren Buffett	40,000	79	Omaha	Berkshire Hathaway
3	Lawrence Ellison	27,000	65	Redwood City	Oracle
4	Christy Walton & family	21,500	54	Jackson	Wal-Mart
5	Jim C. Walton	19,600	61	Bentonville	Wal-Mart
6	Alice Walton	19,300	60	Fort Worth	Wal-Mart
7	S. Robson Walton	19,000	65	Bentonville	Wal-Mart
8	Michael Bloomberg	17,500	67	New York	Bloomberg
9	Charles Koch	16,000	73	Wichita	manufacturing, energy
9	David Koch	16,000	69	New York	manufacturing, energy
11	Sergey Brin	15,300	36	Palo Alto	Google
11	Larry Page	15,300	36	San Francisco	Google
13	Michael Dell	14,500	44	Austin	Dell
14	Steven Ballmer	13,300	53	Seattle	Microsoft
15	George Soros	13,000	79	Westchester	hedge funds
16	Donald Bren	12,000	77	Newport Beach	real estate
17	Paul Allen	11,500	56	Mercer Island	Microsoft, investments
17	Abigail Johnson	11,500	47	Boston	Fidelity
19	Forrest Edward Mars	11,000	78	McLean	candy, pet food
19	Jacqueline Mars	11,000	70	Bedminster	candy, pet food
19	John Mars	11,000	73	Arlington	candy, pet food
22	Carl Icahn	10,500	73	New York	leveraged buyouts
23	Ronald Perelman	10,000	66	New York	leveraged buyouts
24	George B. Kaiser	9,500	67	Tulsa	oil & gas, banking
24	Philip Knight	9,500	71	Beaverton	Nike

Rank	Name	Net Worth ($mil)	Age	Residence	Source
26	Sheldon Adelson	9,000	76	Las Vegas	casinos, hotels
26	Anne Cox Chambers	9,000	89	Atlanta	Cox Enterprises
28	Jeffrey Bezos	8,800	45	Seattle	Amazon
29	James Simons	8,500	71	East Setauket	hedge funds
30	Dan Duncan	8,000	76	Houston	energy
30	Edward C. Johnson III	8,000	79	Boston	Fidelity
32	Jack Crawford Taylor & family	7,000	87	St. Louis	Enterprise Rent-A-Car
33	James Goodnight	6,800	66	Cary	SAS Institute
33	John Paulson	6,800	53	New York	hedge funds
35	John Kluge	6,500	95	Palm Beach	Metromedia
36	Steven Cohen	6,400	53	Greenwich	hedge funds
37	Philip Anschutz	6,000	69	Denver	investments
37	Rupert Murdoch	6,000	78	New York	News Corp
39	Harold Hamm	5,800	63	Oklahoma City	Continental Resources
40	Pierre Omidyar	5,500	42	Honolulu	Ebay
40	Eric Schmidt	5,500	54	Atherton	Google
42	Eli Broad	5,400	76	Los Angeles	investments
43	Steve Jobs	5,100	54	Palo Alto	Apple Computer, Pixar
44	Len Blavatnik	5,000	52	London	Access Industries
44	David Geffen	5,000	66	Malibu	movies, music
44	Frederik Meijer & family	5,000	89	Grand Rapids	supermarkets
44	John Menard	5,000	69	Eau Claire	home improvement stores
44	Ira Rennert	5,000	75	New York	investments
49	Charles Ergen	4,900	56	Denver	EchoStar
50	Charles Schwab	4,700	72	Atherton	discount stock brokerage

今年，美国富豪的财富普遍缩水。

美国超级富豪的财富正不断贬值。我们对名列福布斯400富豪榜 (The Forbes 400) 的美国最富裕人群的净资产总值进行年度统计，在过去12个月里，这一数值从1.57万亿美元跌至1.27万亿美元，整整下降了3000亿美元。这是自1982年公布该榜以来第5次出现同比下降情况。振荡不安的资本市场和房地产价格，以及离婚和欺诈行为的不利影响，314位上榜者遭遇资产缩水，而32位富豪则跌出榜单。

美国第二大富豪沃伦-巴菲特 (Warren Buffett) 损失最为惨重。12个月内，伯克希尔-哈撒韦公司 (Berkshire Hathaway) 股价下滑20%，导致这位“奥马哈先知”(Oracle of Omaha) 资产缩水100亿美元。他现在的身价是400亿美元。这是微软 (Microsoft) 联合创始人比尔-盖茨 (Bill Gates) 连续第16年击败巴菲特，重夺美国首富交椅。微软低迷的股价和不断下滑的对外投资导致该软件业巨头的净资产在12个月内减少了70亿美元。