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For the first time in 13 years, Microsoft man Bill Gates is not the richest man in the world. This year, in Forbes&#39; annual review of the world&#39;s billionaires, investment guru and Nebraska native Warren Buffett topped the list, thanks to&amp;nbsp;a recent 25 percent surge in stock value of his investment firm Berkshire Hathaway.&amp;nbsp; Currently, Berkshire Hathaway&#39;s portfolio of companies includes pieces of GEICO, Coca-Cola, Wells Fargo, Kraft Foods and Anheuser-Busch. &lt;p&gt;Other significant moves on the annual list include the arrival of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, who Forbes says is probably the youngest self-made billionaire in history, and the exit of two big names in banking: Lehman Brothers chief Dick Fuld and ex-Bear Stearns head James Cayne. Thanks to the subprime mortgage crisis, both fell off Forbes&#39; list of billionaires. In addition, due in part to the weak dollar, only four of the top 20 richest people on the planet were American this year, a significant drop from two years ago when 10 of the top 20 were U.S. citizens. However, according to Forbes, the U.S. might be down but it&#39;s far from out. Americans still account for 42 percent of the world&#39;s billionaires and 37 percent of the list&#39;s total wealth.&lt;/p&gt;

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