(ANSA) - ROME, SEPTEMBER 27 - Forbes magazine has published its annual list of the 400 richest crooks in America and for the first time ever at the top there is the patron of Tesla eSpaceX Elon Musk, who undermines the former Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, who had held the top spot for four consecutive years.
In third place was Microsoft founder Bill Gates (despite his 20 billion donations to the Foundation).
Musk is $ 60.5 billion richer this year thanks to an 11% increase in Tesla shares and new funding rounds for SpaceX, while Bezos was hit by the heat of 27% of Amazon shares.
Following in fourth place is Oracle founder Larry Ellison, and then the Omaha Oracle Warren Buffett and Larry Page, founder of Google.
For the first time since 2015, however, the founder of Facebook Mark Zuckerberg is out of the 'top ten' of the richest in America, in 11th place.
Since September 2021, she has lost more than half of his fortune - the incredible figure of 76.8 billion dollars - with the collapse of Meta's shares (-57%).
In general, however, this year the Scrooge are a little less rich.
According to Forbes, "like many Americans, the 400 richest people in the country are affected by the slowdown in the stock market. They are collectively 11% poorer than they were a year ago. They are still doing well, totaling $ 4 trillion. , 1 trillion dollars more than they were worth in autumn 2019, just before the pandemic ".
But it is the first time since the Great Recession that America's ultra-rich are no longer rich than the year before.
And the minimum net worth required to join the list also dropped by 200 million, to 2.7 billion dollars.
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