According to Forbes, the 400 richest Americans added $ 4.5 trillion to their wealth last year, a 40% increase, second, from the latest ranking of the country’s richest.
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos leads the chart for the fourth consecutive year, with a net worth of $ 201 billion;
In second place is Elon Musk (Tesla), with a fortune of 190.5 billion;
In third position Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook), with 134.5 billion.
The people of the super rich have swelled with 44 new entries. Among them – after the divorce – Melinda French Gates, co-president of the Gates foundation, the billionaires of the cryptocurrency world Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss and Noubar Afeyan, co-founder of Moderna, the company that produced one of the anti Covid vaccines. Miriam Adelson, wife of the late casino king Sheldon Adelson, is the richest of the ‘newcomers’, with $ 30.4 billion. The richest youngest is 29-year-old cryptocurrency billionaire Sam Bankman-Fried, who is also the second-richest of the newcomers, with assets worth $ 22.5 billion.
To enter the list, from which Donald Trump came out, it is necessary to have a net wealth of 2.9 billion, 800 million more than a year ago.
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