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From Elon Musk to Jeff Bezos: the richest in the world of 2021 and their fortunes

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Rome, 1 January 2021 – Elon Musk never so rich: 2021 was a golden year for the multi-billionaire CEO of Tesla Motors, almost literally, with a level of wealth previously achieved only by John D. Rockefeller. Bloomberg reports this by plotting the map of the richest of the planet updated to post-2021, or the second year of the pandemic that leaves the tried world, but tends to make the rich richer. To the point that the collective fortune of the 500 richest people on the globe has grown by billion.

Musk, with his has reached the highest level of wealth, net of inflation, in the modern era. This while i 500 del Bloomberg Billionaires Index, have a combined fortune that exceeds 8.4 trillion dollars, more than the GDP of all countries except the United States and China.

Ten super rich have fortunes that exceed 100 billion dollars. This shows how the recovery from the economic shock resulting from Covid-19 has been uneven and has radicalized disparities, with the richest for example benefiting from a loosened fiscal policy. The pandemic has also pushed up to 150 million people into extreme poverty, according to estimates by the World Bank, a number that is set to rise if inflation continues to rise.

Here are the 5 richest in the world

Elon Musk reached the top of the rankings with a fortune of 273.5 billion dollars and a 75% return on investors’ bet on Tesla’s green cars. The visionary entrepreneur has ousted the founder of Amazon from the podium Jeff Bezos, dropped to second place with $ 194.2 billion because the e-commerce and cloud giant rose only 2% compared to 2020.

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Behind him the French Bernard Arnault, the patron of the luxury giant LVMH, with a fortune of 177.1 billion dollars: the shares of his empire grew by 55% last year, also thanks to important investments such as the 15 billion dollars spent at the end of 2020 to take over Tiffany. Slip into fourth position Bill Gates, with an estimated assets of 138.3 billion dollars: they weighed the divorce from Melinda, which forced him to sell a slice of Microsoft shares to his wife, and a growth of the company of only 5%.

Sixth Mark Zuckerberg, the patron of Meta-Facebook, with 128.4 billion (and + 24% compared to 2020), preceded by Larry Page, founder of Alphabet-Google, which had $ 129.5 billion in assets at the end of the year, up 57%.

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