The annual billionaire issue of Forbes magazine, published earlier this week, has a bit of everything. You can thumb these pages, in print or online, and find out how much billionaires pay for opera tickets in Moscow ($1,300 for a box at the Bolshoi) or a haircut in Los Angeles ($750 at the Frédéric Fekkai Salon). You can learn, from the new Forbes, the trick to pricing mansions or identify all the world’s billionaire bachelors. You can even figure out whether you’re born to be a billionaire yourself. You simply need, says Forbes, guts, optimism, an insatiable need to win - and a ‘divine-like vision to see around corners. Forbes coverYes, the new Forbes billionaire issue does have everything. Except maybe perspective. The editors at Forbes might quibble about that. They do, after all, take great pains in this new special issue to compare and contrast their raw numbers. We can learn from Forbes, for instance, that billionaires are multiplying much faster outside the United States than in. Russian billionaires have nearly doubled their numbers since last year, from 32 to 62. In Turkey, the billionaire tally has jumped from 12 to 28. In China, an […]