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In reply to the discussion: by Robert Reich 'The New York Times no longer reports all the news that's fit to print [View all]nxylas
(6,440 posts)6. And, according to one calculation, the richest man who has ever lived
I would have to dig to find the article, but it was based on calculating how many of his fellow countrymen he could afford to buy. A slightly flawed methodology perhaps, since capitalism values the lives of people in the Anglosphere and Western Europe more highly than those in the rest of the world. But it doesn't change the essential fact that Carlos Slim is very rich indeed.
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by Robert Reich 'The New York Times no longer reports all the news that's fit to print [View all]
elleng
Mar 2016
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Is he an American citizen? I thought he was Mexican. What is he doing interfering in our elections
JDPriestly
Mar 2016
#32
I use newspapers to clean my windows. Other than that???? I only read the very local, local ones.
JDPriestly
Mar 2016
#33
Robert Reich was all but fired by President Clinton, and he's been an anti-Clintonite.....
George II
Mar 2016
#14
I still remember eferrari catching a newspaper in the middle of altering an article
suffragette
Mar 2016
#19
WAPO switched from Democratic to Republican ownership. Nothing else need be said.
merrily
Mar 2016
#38