billionaires (fwd)

[Michael Hoover]

> probably too much to expect that below-types will start jumping from 
> fifteenth floor windows any time soon (and their going bye-bye won't 
> destroy capitalism), but one can hope...   Michael Hoover
> 
> > Here's how some famous billionaires fared as the stock market plunged
> > this week.
> > 
> > William H. Gates III, chairman and chief software architect, Microsoft
> > Corp. (NasdaqNM:MSFT - news), lost $11.1 billion on his 741.7 million
> > shares of the company.
> > 
> >  Charles R. Schwab, chairman and co-CEO of Charles Schwab Corp.
> > (NYSE:SCH - news), lost $2.6 billion on his 175.2 million shares.
> > 
> > Jeffrey P. Bezos, chairman and CEO of Amazon.com, lost $2.4 billion on
> > his 117.5 million shares.
> > 
> > Michael S. Dell, Chairman and CEO, Dell Computer Corporation
> > (NasdaqNM:DELL - news) lost $2.3 billion on his 306.1 million shares.
> > 
> >  Jerry Yang, Chief Yahoo! of Yahoo!, lost $1.6 billion on his 45.4
> > million shares.
> > 
> >  Stephen M. Case, chairman and CEO of America Online, lost $122.4
> > million on his 8.90 million shares.