Elon Musk’s fortune slipped by almost $62 billion. At the same time, Jeff Bezos lost about $63 billion in his fortune, while Mark Zuckerberg lost more than half of his fortune, according to Bloomberg. In total, the 500 richest people in the world lost 1.4 trillion. dollars in the first half of 2022, marking a […]
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The youngest self-made billionaire in the world is a 25-year-old who dropped out of college
By Cole Horton Alexander Wang grew up in the shadow of Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, USA, the top secret place where the United States developed its first atomic bomb during World War II. His parents were physicists working on armaments programs for the army. He does the same now: Wang’s San Francisco-based […]
Elon Musk: The decade to the top
By Matt Durot At the top of the Forbes list of the richest people in the world Elon Musk was found for the first time this year dethroning Jeff Bezos. The head of Tesla and SpaceX was worth $ 219 billion on March 11, the date when Forbes “locked” the data on the assets of […]
US: Biden will propose tax increases for billionaires
The Biden administration will propose to tax the richest Americans more, in the draft budget for 2023 that will be presented on Monday, according to the Washington Post. The “billionaire minimum income tax” proposal is for the roughly 700 richest Americans, with a minimum tax rate of 20% for more than $ 100 million a […]
Four Kazakh tycoons lost $ 3 billion in 48 hours
By David Dawkins The fortunes of the billionaires behind some of Kazakhstan’s top companies have sunk after anti-government protests erupted in the country last week. Four billionaires in Kazakhstan – including one daughter and the son-in-law of former President Nursultan Nazarbayev – became “poorer” by $ 3 billion in two 24 hours. The mobilizations were […]
The 500 richest people in the world increased by $ 1 trillion. their property in 2021
For the richest people on the planet, 2021 was a year of huge profits, extreme losses and unprecedented control. For example, Elon Musk’s fortune skyrocketed to levels that only John D. Rockefeller had achieved. Bill Hwang lost $ 20 billion in just a few days, while Bill Gates – once the richest man in the […]
The 10 most profitable billionaires of 2021
By Chase Peterson-Withorn 2021 was a great year to get rich, especially if you were already. Of the 2,660 billionaires in the world, 1,800 are richer today than they are on New Year’s Eve 2021, according to Forbes estimates. Some have added hundreds of millions of dollars to their net worth. Others have made billions. […]
The fortune of billionaires hits records with the Covid-19 pandemic
The fortunes of the “super-rich” increased by more than a quarter at the height of the crisis, in April, to stand at $ 10.2 trillion. The bosses of technological or innovative companies like Jeff Bezos or Elon Musk have considerably increased their wealth. Social distancing, teleworking, the end of large gatherings … temporarily or not, the […]