Written by DCist contributor Alexa Steinberg.

Thanks to Forbes’ latest list of the world’s billionaires, we now know that here in D.C. we have two of our very own. Granted, Mitchell and Steven Rales “only” have just over two billion apiece, leaving them well behind top scorer Bill Gates – for the twelfth year running – with his massive $50 billion, but still, at least they made it, right? Not according to Luisa Kross and Allison Fass who compiled the list. To them, “making a billion just isn’t what it used to be.”