If you ask Forbes they will tell you that the richest man in the world is Carlos Slim. Or, Bill Gates before him, or Carnegie, Rothsild, Rockefeller, Morgan and many others all at their own times. But we will go one century back, or to be more precise in April 1912, at the time when the richest man in the world was John Jacob Astor IV. He was a businessman, investor, writer and was successor to his already rich and powerful family. There was bright future ahead of him.
He built the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in Manhattan, one of his biggest assets and it was estimated that he was heavy 150 million dollars or if you put that in today’s money 3.4 billion dollars!
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