This year, US economic magazine Forbes reported that billionaires in the United States suffered a total loss of $660 billion or about 838 trillion won in assets due to interest rate hikes, inflation, and the plunge in technology stocks triggered by the economic recession.
Globally, billionaires have lost their net worth of $1.9 trillion, according to Forbes.
In particular, Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla, SpaceX, and Twitter, lost $115 billion, or about 146 trillion won, the largest loss among billionaires not only in the United States but also around the world.
Musk bought Twitter for $44 billion in October and sold $23 billion worth of Tesla shares to raise funds, and in the midst of this, Tesla shares have fallen by nearly 70% as of this year.
Due to this, he gave the world's richest person to Bernard Arnault Louis Vuitton Moët Hennessy (LVMH) chairman (73), but his net worth is still $ 139 billion and our money is about 176.7 trillion won, so he is the richest person in the United States.
Forbes reported that not only Musk, but most of the wealthy in the United States and around the world have all lost money this year.
In the United States, following Musk, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos recorded a loss of $80 billion, or about 101.5 trillion won, followed by Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook parent company Meta founder, $78 billion loss, and Larry Page, Google parent company Alphabet co-founder. , loss of $40 billion, Phil Knight, co-founder of Nike, loss of $18.3 billion, honorary chairman Leonard Lauder Eddie Lauder, loss of $9.8 billion.
American hip-hop star, fashion designer, and entrepreneur Yeh, who is an American hip-hop star, fashion designer, and businessman, was dropped from the list of billionaires as Adidas sold his money due to anti-Semitic remarks, and Sam Bankman-Fried, founder of virtual currency exchange FTX, who was accused of fraud, is also a billionaire. said he had fallen as a criminal defendant.
Losses by country for billionaires around the world were $660 billion in the United States, followed by $620 billion in China, $150 billion in Russia, $120 billion in Germany, and $60 billion in Hong Kong.
The Washington Post (WP) of the United States also quoted the Bloomberg Billionaires Index on the same day and reported that the rich in Big Tech (giant technology companies) suffered a loss of 433 billion dollars, or about 550 trillion won, this year. It is said that the assets of Zhang Yiming, the founder of China's Byte Dance, which is the parent company, attracted attention by recording $ 55 billion, or about 69.8 trillion won, which increased by more than $ 10 billion, about 12.7 trillion won.