--WORLD'S FIRST TRILLIONAIRE?--

Who was the world's first trillionaire?
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The answer is no one.....yet!
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Bill Gates reached the apex of his net worth in 1999 topping the $100 billion mark, but has since slipped to about $50 billion.
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In 1999, calculating the growth rate of his holdings he was expected to reach one trillion dollars in 2004 or 2005. Obviously it did not happen, but he is still by far the closest.
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Here are some facts about a trillion dollars:

• If you were to spend a million dollars a day it would take you 2,737.8 years to spend it assuming you made no interest.
• At 5% interest you'd earn about $136,986,301.00 per day, $5,707,762.00 per hour, $95,129.00 per minute or $1,585 per second.
• According to Forbes in 2005 the 691 billionaires in the world are worth $2.2 trillion combined.
• On October 18 2005 the American National Debt surpassed $8 trillion.

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