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Being the shrewd businessman that he is, Bill Gates has just invested a significant amount of money in one of the few products that public consume during both good times and poor: alcohol. Actually Femsa, the Mexican brewery in which Gates now owns a $392 million stake through his Cascade Investment LLC fund, does a lot more than just brew booze: according to Reuters, it’s plus the world’s second-largest Coke bottler as well as operator of

Oxxo, Latin America’s largest convenience store chain. When asked how he felt about the Microsoft founder moving in on his home turf, fellow billionaire Carlos Slim reportedly shrugged off the threat, boasting that “not only am I a wealthier man than Mr. Gates, but he couldn’t even produce it through half a ability Hour with his nueva cerveza”

 

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Orginal post by Evan Blass