Trivia games worldwide will need to be reprinting one of their cards soon. “Who is the richest man in the world?” For 13 years the answer has always been “Bill Gates“. Well, 13 is definitely not Mr. Gates’ lucky number. Today that answer changes. Carlos Slim, owner of Mexico based America Movil has just knocked Gates to #2.

America Movil enjoyed a 27% increase in stock price during Q2 2007, which pushed Slim to the #1 richest man in the world with a net worth of approximately $67.8 billion dollars. Gates is now sitting (still quite comfortably) with $59.2 billion in worth. He has been giving a lot of money to charity over the past several years so it would be interesting to see how much money he would have if he would have kept it all. I’m sure we don’t have to say an extra prayer for Bill and Melinda Gates. It’s unlikely that any of us will be greeted by Bill Gates when we go shopping at Walmart next…

This also means that my frequently blogged about Warren Buffet is now sitting on the bronze podiu with a whopping $52 billion. Forbes predicted that Slim could possibly pass Gates earlier this year. It turns out they were right. Any way you slice it, none of these guys should worry about where there next meal is coming from.

Source: SeattlePI.com