The Richest Americans

Today's NY Times features a graphic presentation listing the richest Americans ever and how they amassed their wealth. Number one on the list is John D. Rockefeller with $193 billion. Bill Gates with $83 billion and Warren Buffet with a paltry $46 billion are the only living Americans on the list. Click on the link below and compare how you're doing.

Also linked below is a front-page article by Louis Uchitelle, the premier NYT economics correspondent, entitled "The Richest of the Rich, Proud of a New Gilded Age...Charity and Skills Justify it All, Tycoons Say," featuring CitiGroup's Sanford Weill, Leo Hindery, Jr., manager, pirvate equity fund, Warren Buffett, Kenneth C. Griffin, who received more than $1 billion as chairman of a hedge fund, Arthur Levitt, Jr., Robert Crandall Paul Volcker This and Warren Buffett who see warning flags flying, This is an interesting article,