Good news from the financial markets.

Every year at about this time, Forbes, the magazine about money^tm publishes their annual list of the richest people in the world. I'm sure that you'll expect Bill Gates and the Sultan of Brunei to make an appearence, but there are some perhaps less expected names. I'm sure Potterites amongst you will be delighted to learn that popular philathropist Lucius Malfoy has entered the list at number 15 and my personal heroes C. Montgomery Burns and Ebenezer Scrooge make it in at numbers 8 and 12 respectively. However, since time immemorial, the richest man in the world has to have been Jolly Old Santa Claus, thus disproving tooth_fairy's assertion that you can't be both ethical and rich.