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Forbes Magazine this week listed Slim for a fourth year in a row as the world's richest man, with a fortune estimated at $73 billion. Trailing slightly is Bill Gates, the Microsoft found, at $67 billion. The two men, who were recently together here in Mexico, have some differences when it comes to philanthropy. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130315001428/http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2013/02/14/183120/to-give-or-to-keep-microsofts.html" target="_self">Click here</a> to see my story on the issue.</p> </div> <div class="author source-org vcard" style="display:none"> <a class="url org fn" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130315001428/http://www.mcclatchydc.com/">McClatchy Washington Bureau</a> </div> <div id="item-license" style="display:none;"> <a rel="item-license" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130315001428/http://www.mcclatchydc.com/terms-of-service/"> Copyright 2013 McClatchy Newspapers. All rights reserved. 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I think everyone knows how he got his ill gotten gains in a backroom deal with one disgraced ex Mexican president. Weeks later he raised prices 300% without making improvements. It doesn't take business acumen to make a profit this way nor in the state of Telmex and Telcel today. As the LA Times reported one of the most expensive Telcom systems in the world and I might add one of the lowest in quality.</p></span> </div> <p class="comment-footer"> Posted by: hana | <a rel="nofollow" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130315001428/http://blogs.mcclatchydc.com/mexico/2013/03/carlos-slim-the-richest-0001.html?cid=6a00d83451c64169e2017c37570802970b#comment-6a00d83451c64169e2017c37570802970b">03/05/2013 at 10:30 PM</a> </p> </div> </div> </div>  <script type="text/javascript" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20130315001428js_/http://static.typepad.com/.shared:v20130222.01-0-ga9a84f6:typepad:en_us/js/comments.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript">hostName = '.mcclatchydc.com';</script> <form id="comment-form" method="post" action="https://web.archive.org/web/20130315001428/http://www.typepad.com/t/comments"> <input type="hidden" name="entry_id" value="6a00d83451c64169e2017c3754e84e970b"/> <input type="hidden" name="user_id" value="507341"/> <div 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href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130315001428/http://blogs.mcclatchydc.com/mexico/elections/">Elections</a></li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130315001428/http://blogs.mcclatchydc.com/mexico/environment/">Environment</a></li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130315001428/http://blogs.mcclatchydc.com/mexico/food/">Food</a></li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130315001428/http://blogs.mcclatchydc.com/mexico/foreigners-in-mexico/">Foreigners in Mexico</a></li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130315001428/http://blogs.mcclatchydc.com/mexico/immigration/">Immigration</a></li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130315001428/http://blogs.mcclatchydc.com/mexico/indigenous/">Indigenous</a></li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130315001428/http://blogs.mcclatchydc.com/mexico/institutional-revolutionary-party/">Institutional Revolutionary Party </a></li> <li><a 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