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Posted: Fri, Feb 17 2006, 7:25 pm EST Post subject: Who Knows the Most About Money? |
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Who Knows the Most About Money?
Forbes.com
By David M. Ewalt
Bill Gates has enough money to buy lunch for every person on Earth. If Oprah Winfrey converted her fortune into dollar bills and lined them up end to end, they'd wrap around the world five and a half times.
You can't argue with either person's success. But great wealth doesn't always correspond to great understanding of money--Gates and Winfrey are successful because of other talents, not necessarily because they really grok greenbacks.
So who does know the most about money? Are economists more knowledgeable than accountants? Does a self-made millionaire know more than a trust fund baby? And who's to say that actors, models or politicians don't really know about the green stuff?
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