According to a forecast by the prestigious Forbes magazine, Indian business tycoon Mukesh Ambani could be the richest man on earth in 2014 with a net worth of USD 62 billion. Ambani is expected to go ahead of Mexican billionaire businessman Carlos Slim.
Ambani presently has a net worth of USD 29 billion and is likely to pip the world’s richest man Mexican businessman Carlos Slim to top Forbes’ rich list in 2014.
From in.news.yahoo.com:
Ambani’s net worth swells to USD 62 billion while Slim is “hit hard by Mexican political, financial chaos,” according to the prediction by Forbes. 53-year-old Ambani currently ranks fourth on Forbes” list of the world’s billionaires.
Forbes has listed a number of events that could happen over the next 10 years in the field of politics, energy, medicine, finance, society and technology. The publication asked its staff and contributors to forecast some of the “noteworthy events” till 2020.
“A vision of the coming decade sketched from real data, projections and facts whenever possible — though we’ve injected a dose of rigorous science fiction to fill the gaps,” Forbes said about its special 2020 report called ”What Happens Next — Our Look Ahead”. Another forecast in the field of finance and economics is of fraudster Bernard Madoff’s death in his prison cell in 2011.
Forbes predicts the US job scene to finally improve in 2018.
