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Night Stalker · 03-05-2003, 08:16 PM

Despite the riches that Gates has, by comparison, he has nowhere near the level of raw wealth that Carnegie, Mellon, or Rockafeller had in their day.

I don't remember the exact figures, but I remember a white paper on it when I worked at The Vanguard Group (huge mutual fund co).

Using rough figures and 1998 dollars:
Gates ~ $50 billion
Rockafeller ~ $320 billion in equivalent money! (maybe it was trillion, can't quite remember but it was staggering) [img]graemlins/wow.gif[/img] [img]graemlins/wow.gif[/img]

03-05-2003, 08:16 PM	#14
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