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The 2011 Forbes Fictional 15

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I stumbled upon this list while looking up Gordon Gekko on Google. Looks like Forbes has been running this feature for quite a few years. There’s nothing like knowing that even fictional characters are richer than you are. (How is a dragon worth $8.6 billion?????)

The 2011 Forbes Fictional 15

2011 Forbes Fictional 15

  • 1 – Scrooge McDuck – $44.1B
  • 2 – Carlisle Cullen – $36.2B
  • 3 – Artemis Fowl II – $13.5B
  • 4 – Richie Rich – $9.7B
  • 5 – Jed Clampett – $9.5B
  • 6 – Tony Stark – $9.4B
  • 7 – Smaug – $8.6B
  • 8 – Bruce Wayne – $7.0B
  • 9 – Mr. Monopoly – $2.6B
  • 10 – Arthur Bach – $1.8B
  • 11 – Jo Bennett – $1.2B
  • 12 – C. Montgomery Burns – $1.1B
  • 13 – Chuck Bass – $1.1B
  • 14 – Gordon Gekko – $1.1B
  • 15 – Jeffrey Lebowski – $1.0B
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I thought this story on Yahoo was interesting. Woods scandal cost shareholders up to $12 billion

The sex scandal that engulfed Tiger Woods may have cost shareholders of companies endorsed by the world’s No. 1 golfer up to $12 billion in losses, according to a study by two economics professors from the University of California, Davis.

The study, released on Monday by researchers Victor Stango and Christopher Knittel, gave an estimate for damage to the market value of Woods’ main sponsors caused by revelations of alleged extramarital affairs that surfaced after he was involved in a minor car accident outside his Florida home on Nov. 27.

“We estimate that shareholders of Tiger Woods’ sponsors lost $5-12 billion after his car accident, relative to shareholders of firms that Mr. Woods does not endorse,” the researchers wrote, adding that millions of shareholders were affected.

Read the rest here.

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