Jim Walton
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"Jim Walton" is the youngest son of Sam Walton, the founder of world's largest retailer Wal-Mart. On the 2015 Forbes list of billionaires/Forbes list of world billionaires, Jim Walton is ranked at #9 with a net worth of $40.6 billion.

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Literally circled the globe with bureaus, from Baghdad to Johannesburg to Havana to Sydney to Hong Kong.

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