He anticipates increasing his fortune by shorting Britain.
The 300 richest people on the planet are $524bn£319bnbettertter off than this time last year, with the world's richest man, Microsoft founder Bill Gates, increasing his fortune by $15.8bn to $78.5bn over 2013.
The growth in technology spending promises to give the economy a lift in 2005 and is increasing the fortunes of technology providers like Hewlett-Packard, Dell and I.B.M., which are courting smaller businesses aggressively.
In articles on Thursday and Friday in the Communist Party newspaper Granma, Mr. Castro quoted from Mr. L Obradorr's new book, which accuses the Mexican elite of improperly increasing its fortunes from 2000 to 20006, during President Vicente Fox's tenure.
But White House officials argue that over the long term, success in their efforts could have a huge impact on improving the lives of Africans and increasing the fortunes of American companies.
The export of thousands of jobs overseas since the 1970's has more to do with specific United States economic policies, particularly free trade and deregulation, that have resulted domestically in corporations and wealthy individuals increasing their fortunes and the standard of living of American workers remaining stagnant.
Circumstances would, however, increase his fortune even further.
Lord Maurice and Charles Saatchihi, co-founders of M&C Saatchi, increased their fortune slightly to £135m.
Deripaska's money helped him increase his fortune, but the Russian was not coping well with the financial crisis.
Despite the shaky state of regional press Sir Ray Tindle, owner of newspaper publisher Tindle Press Holdings, slightly increased his fortune to £130m.
Mr. Icahn, meanwhile, has increased his fortune fivefold since 1996, to some $5 billion, with a series of well-timed investments.
