对于最富有的美国人,许多中国人并不陌生,因为他们都长期名列各种富豪排行榜前列(只有迈克尔·戴尔在1993年曾由于公司股价暴跌而被挤出“福布斯400富豪”排行榜,但第二年就回来了)。他们的财富仍然在快速增长:2001年他们的净资产总值达到2115亿美元,而十年前只有280亿美元。但是这种增长绝不是均衡的,这15个人当中只有考克斯姐妹的净资产在过去十年间每年都有所增长。 Many Chinese are no strangers to the richest Americans because they have long been at the forefront of the richest list (only Michael Dell was squeezed out of the Forbes 400 in 1993 due to a plunge in share prices) Leaderboard, but came back the following year). Their wealth is still growing rapidly: in 2001 their net worth reached 211.5 billion U.S. dollars, up from only 28 billion U.S. dollars a decade ago. But such growth is by no means balanced, and only the Cox Sisters net assets have risen every year for the past decade.