According to the news, the first half of 2022 was associated with huge losses of the world’s richest people. Some of the top 500 richest people in the world have given away half of their wealth during this period.
According to a report published on the Bloomberg website, the amount and amount of assets of the world’s richest people has decreased significantly in the last six months, compared to the last two years. It seems that the huge loss of the richest people was due to the collapse of the world’s financial markets in the last few months.
Meanwhile, at the beginning of the spread of the corona virus, these people managed to increase the value of their assets by increasing the value of their companies’ shares through the financial incentives of governments and central banks.
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Details of the huge losses of the world’s richest people
Unfortunately, the action that was supposed to benefit this group actually ended up harming them. Some time ago, politicians decided to fight and stop inflation by raising interest rates.
But this action ultimately gave the opposite result and caused the fall in the value of companies’ shares and the value of the assets of the rich. Large companies such as Tesla and Amazon suffered the most losses in the meantime. In the last three months, the Tesla company passed its worst financial season, and the Amazon company also faced very bad economic conditions at the same time as the bursting of the dot-com bubble.
The huge losses of the richest people in the world are as follows. Elon Musk lost $69 billion, Jeff Bezos lost $61 billion, and Mark Zuckerberg lost half of his fortune. It is interesting to know that the 500 richest people in the world lost more than 1.4 trillion dollars in less than 6 months. Analysts call this situation one of the sharpest six-month declines in wealth for the wealthy in all of history.
Although this amount is very high and the world’s rich experienced an unprecedented loss, unfortunately, this event could not reduce the deep gap between people and reduce the inequality of wealth distribution among people. In the first place in the list of the richest people in the world, Elon Musk As the co-founder of Tesla, he still stands with a net worth of $208.5 billion. The second place belongs to Jeff Bezos, who has $129.6 billion according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.
In the third place of this list is the name of Bernard Arnault, the co-founder and CEO of LVMH, who has a fortune of 128.7 billion dollars. Bill Gates It is also in the fourth place with 114.8 billion dollars. As you can see, the total assets of these 4 people are more than 100 billion dollars at this moment. It should be mentioned that at the beginning of 2022, there were about 10 people in the list of the richest people in the world, and Mark Zuckerberg was also among them, and now Zuckerberg is in the 17th place with a fortune of 60 billion dollars.
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