I love the lists in Forbes magazine. You can find a list on almost everything – the best places to live, jobs that are in the most demand, and the most powerful folks in Hollywood. One of the oddest addition to the list is the Forbes Fictional 15, an annual listing of fiction’s richest.
Topping the list – just ahead of Scrooge McDuck – is Uncle Sam. Worth a reputed $29.1 billion, Uncle Sam was described as:
Crusty former frontiersman and U.S. Army recruitment officer experiencing second act on Wall Street. Contrarian strategy: Invests exclusively in companies on the brink of bankruptcy; bullish on insolvent insurers, overleveraged banks, Detroit automakers and “toxic securities.” High net worth attributed to crafty purchase of U.S. Mint in 1792; printed $6 billion in September alone. Large interests in aerospace and defense. With 2003 real estate play in Middle East widely viewed as failure, some hope new management will clean up mess.
Rounding out the Fictional 15:
- Uncle Sam
- Scrooge McDuck
- Richie Rich
- Gordon Gekko
- Jabba The Hutt
- Ebeneezer Scrooge
- Tony Stark
- Thurston Howell III
- Bruce Wayne
- Adrian Veidt
- Jed Clampett
- Artemis Fowl II
- C. Montgomery Burns
- Lara Croft
- Mr. Monopoly
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I think “American Tax Payers” should probably top the list. Seems to be the general consensus of the Congress and Senate!