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"Changes in Forbes 400 from 1987 to 2009"

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Anonymous Anonymous said...

"... one year Cal Tech suddenly vaulted to #1, because the editors had changed the rules to benefit Cal Tech. The next year, Cal Tech had dropped considerably because the rules were changed again."

They only dropped to #4. But the change in weighting factors was pretty dramatic in order to accomplish that.

http://infoproc.blogspot.com/2007/07/cooking-books-us-news-college-rankings.html

10/26/09, 5:21 PM

Anonymous Alan said...

Would love to see some year-by-year graphs on this data. It would say more than a thousand essays on evolution of modern America.

10/26/09, 5:29 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

I know a guy on the Forbes 400 list - he claims they way way underestimate his wealth, which is almost all in private holdings. I imagine that's the case for a lot of privately-held wealth.

10/26/09, 9:10 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

I like to see a list of he 400 poorest people in America--not who doesn't have the cash--there's lots of people with zero--, but who owes the most...

10/26/09, 9:25 PM

Anonymous jody said...

their rankings of sports team values are more fun.

the values do move around every year, and it's interesting to see how much money each made or lost, and who owns the team, and how many times you would have to win powerball to buy random team x, and so forth.

10/26/09, 9:51 PM

Blogger Steve Sailer said...

"400 poorest"

At some point, Cullen Davis, the oilman who murdered his 11-year-old stepdaughter and then was successfully by my old boss Racehorse Haynes, was noted by Forbes for having the biggest negative net worth -- something like $-850,000,000.

10/26/09, 9:58 PM

Anonymous Freddy said...

One less member of the Jewish faith on the list:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/money/article-1223184/Bernie-Madoff-associate-Jeffry-Picower-dead.html

10/27/09, 5:36 AM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

If the financial collapse of September 2008 taught us anything, it's that there isn't a whole lot of difference between being having a very large positive net worth and having a very large negative net worth - it's the absolute value of the thing which determines whether you have access to the corridors of power.

Ain't fiat money grand?

10/27/09, 6:39 AM

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