How to become a billionaire

Steve Martin used to offer his step-by-step plan for becoming a millionaire. “First,” he would say, “you get a million dollars.”

In April of 2000, former Wal-Mart CEO David Glass bought the Kansas City Royals for $96 million. Even at the time, that was considered an outrageously low price for a major league baseball team — it was reportedly not even the …