Tail Report: Tamara Ecclestone

What makes a girl wifey material? There are many factors that contribute. Not every Jane off the street is worthy of a CS man's love and devotion. She needs to be beautiful, of course (because, as great as we are, we're still just as shallow as the next man). She needs to be intelligent. Charming. Witty.

And if she's a smoking-hot, 27-year-old billionaire? It's certainly not going to hurt.

From The Daily Mail:

While most of us mere mortals barely know what a £50 note feels like, Tamara Ecclestone lies naked surrounded by oodles of them.

The model stripped off to pose for iconic photographer Tyler Shields in a series of snaps that ooze filthy rich.

As well as writhing around on a bed laden with £1million, the 27-year-old also alludes to her own wealth by pretending to iron the wad of cash - even though she's probably never ironed in her life.

...Shields' agent told The Sun: 'Tyler asked if she could get hold of £1million and she said she already had it lying around. So he got her to lie in it naked.'

Bravo to Shields. And Tamara. In case my fellow yankees are wondering, £1million equals about $1.5 million. And Tamara had it just "lying around".

DM me on Twitter (@crkstr_defi), girl. I think I can see a real future for us (#truelove).

The Real [re'al] Slim Shady

Where does the world's richest man hail from? The U.S.? Nope. Japan? Wrong again. The U.K.? Bloody-hell nah.

The answer: Mexico.

Meet Mr. Carlos Slim Helú.

Riding surging prices of his telecom holdings, including giant mobile outfit América Móvil (AMX, news, msgs), Mexican tycoon Carlos Slim Helú has beaten out Americans Bill Gates and Warren Buffett to become the wealthiest person on the planet and nab the top spot on the 2010 Forbes list of the world's billionaires.

Slim's fortune has swelled to an estimated $53.5 billion, up $18.5 billion in 12 months. Shares of América Móvil, of which Slim owns a $23 billion stake, were up 35% in the period.

That massive pile of scratch puts him ahead of Gates, the Microsoft (MSFT, news, msgs) co-founder who had held the title of world's richest for 14 of the previous 15 years.

This news is laced with a healthy spoonful of irony. Mexico has long been notorious for its level of poverty, especially when compared to its neighbors to the north. This means that hundreds of people risk their lives every month crawling through deserts and wading through rivers to escape the home of the world's richest man. Seems to be a lack of balance in that, if you ask me.

The full MSN Money article can be found here.