Forbes: Jeff Bezos remains the richest man in the world
Bill Gates is the richest in the world: overtook Jeff Bezos
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08 September 2020The super rich are richer than ever, despite the planetary crisis linked to the pandemic.
And number one is confirmed Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, who increased his assets by 57 percent.
This is what emerges from the list of "400" billionaires published by Forbes, which shows that on average their assets have grown by eight percent in the last year.
The total amounts to more than 3 trillion dollars, the highest figure in the thirty-nine years of rankings compiled by Forbes.
Bezos, in command for the third year in a row, has raised his assets to 179 billion dollars, a figure updated to July 24 and partial, given that in August the founder of Amazon, also according to Forbes, would have crossed the wall of 200 billions, the first in the history of this ranking.
In second place the founder of Microsoft, Bill Gates, with 111 billion, followed by Mark Zuckerberg, of Facebook, with 85 billion.
Among the top ten also Warren Buffett, Los Angeles Clippers owner Steve Ballmer, Tesla's Elon Musk, and the two Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin, at 8 and 9, who together can boast a fortune of 133.2 billions.
Donald Trump however is impoverished: the American president is worth $ 2.5 billion, less than the 3.1 billion last year, and slide into place 339mo 275mo compared to 2019.
The first of the "Italian", the owner of Fiorentina, Rocco Commisso, in 115 place with 5.5 billion.