Forbes: 400 American Scrooge 40% richer in pandemic
Despite the Covid-19 , the 400 richest Americans added $ 4.5 trillion to their wealth last year, a 40% increase, according to Forbes’ latest ranking of the country’s’ Scroogers’. Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, remains on top for the fourth consecutive year with a net worth of $ 201 billion, followed by Elon Musk (Tesla) e Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook), with a fortune of 190.5 billion and 134.5 billion respectively.
The ranks of the super rich have swelled with 44 new entries, the highest number since 2077. Among them – after the divorce – Melinda French Gates, co-chair of the Gates foundation, bitcoin billionaires Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss e Noubar Afeyan, co-founder of Moderna, the company that produced one of the Covid vaccines.
Miriam Adelson, wife of late casino king Sheldon Adelson, is the richest of the ‘newcomers’, with $ 30.4 billion. The youngest Scrooge is 29-year-old cryptocurrency billionaire Sam Bankman-Fried, which is also the second-richest of the latest arrivals, 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 1 year ago.
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