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Bill Gates is the richest man in the United States

The aggregate wealth of the 400 richest is $2.3 trillion -- an increase of $270 billion from last year.

By Aileen Graef

NEW YORK, Sept. 30 (UPI) -- Bill Gates and Warren Buffett top the list of the 400 richest Americans with the Wal-mart Waltons taking four of the top ten spots.

The annual list, compiled by Forbes, shows the big names in Silicon Valley and Wall Street. Bill Gates is the top of the list followed by Warren Buffett, former Oracle CEO Larry Ellison, Charles and David Koch, Christy, Jim, Alice and S. Robson Walton, and Mark Zuckerberg.

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The aggregate wealth of the 400 richest is $2.3 trillion -- an increase of $270 billion from last year. The record setting year saw 113 billionaires not make the list.

Elizabeth Holmes, one of the youngest in the lineup, is one of the 27 newcomers to the list after building the blood testing company Theranos, of which she owns 50 percent.

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