This year the world’s youngest billionaires are a little older–and a lot poorer.
The world’s youngest tycoons may have sprouted a few gray hairs over the last year.
Amid the global recession, the Forbes list of the World’s Billionaires is smaller–and poorer–this year. As a result, the tiny club of billionaires age 40 and younger just got a whole lot smaller too. Last year, the world’s 20 youngest plutocrats were all under the age of 36. In 2009, their ages range from 25 to 40. The average age of the world’s 20 youngest billionaires is 35 this year, up from last year’s average of 32. The average net worth of billionaires age 40 and under is $2.9 billion, down 30% from last year’s average of $4.1 billion.
All flights to the inauguration of president-elect Barack Obama as the 44th president of the world, is fully booked, but as Africans when there is a will there is always a way. whether by land, air or even sea we will make it there, Yes we can! and we are coming with our extended families - the African way!
As Obama himself has admitted that the task ahead is an enormous one, and he will be introducing some stimulus to the economy while shading off some excess stuffs.
‘‘Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let each new year find you a better man.”
Benjamin Franklin
‘‘We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year’s Day.”
Edith Lovejoy Pierce
‘‘Happiness is too many things these days for anyone to wish ill on anyone lightly. So let’s just wish each other a bileless New Year and leave it at that”.
Judith Crist
To all our numerous friends and their families we say: Merry Christmas
French: Joyeux Noel
Italian: Buone Natale
Norwegian: Gledelig Jul
Finnish: Hyvaa Joulua
Spanish: Feliz Navidad
German: Froehliche Weihnachten
Japanese: Merii Kurisumasau
Dutch: Vrolijk Kerstfeest
Greek: Kala Christouyenna
Ukrainian: Srozhdestvom Kristovym
If your language was not included, pls submit it on the comment page.
‘I sometimes think we expect too much of Christmas Day. We try to crowd into it the long arrears of kindliness and humanity of the whole year. As for me, I like to take my Christmas a little at a time, all through the year. And thus I drift along into the holidays – let them overtake me unexpectedly – waking up some fine morning and suddenly saying to myself: “Why, this is Christmas Day!”
David Grayson