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mahatmakanejeeves

(60,665 posts)
Sat Dec 31, 2022, 10:49 PM Dec 2022

Elon Musk Has Now Lost the Most Money in History

MONEY / ELON MUSK

Elon Musk Has Now Lost the Most Money in History

Bloomberg reports he has become the first person to lose $200B

By John Johnson, Newser Staff
Posted Dec 31, 2022 10:02 AM CST

A little over a year ago, Elon Musk was sitting on the astronomical sum of about $340 billion in net worth, making him the richest human on the planet by a wide margin. Today, Bloomberg reports that Musk has became the first person in history to lose $200 billion. The outlet's new Billionaires Index has his net worth at $137 billion, good for second place on the richest list, behind Bernard Arnault of France. For context, NME notes that Musk's loss surpasses Arnault's entire net worth of $162 billion. Not surprisingly, Musk's travails at Twitter, which have bled into troubles at Tesla, are blamed for the plunge. The top 10 richest people at the end of 2022, per Bloomberg:

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Elon Musk Has Now Lost the Most Money in History (Original Post) mahatmakanejeeves Dec 2022 OP
He really is out-tRumping tRump Blue Owl Dec 2022 #1
Genius ! C_U_L8R Dec 2022 #2
The bigger they are... Bluethroughu Dec 2022 #3
Yes! My mother used to say that n I never got it until I was older. Deuxcents Dec 2022 #4
Wait until Putin gets the bill to rebuild Ukraine. Turbineguy Jan 2023 #5
+100000000000000000 Pachamama Jan 2023 #6
Glass Onion and Musk Metaphorical Jan 2023 #7
Let that sink in. LetMyPeopleVote Jan 2023 #8
His Hitler stint promises to be short too bucolic_frolic Jan 2023 #9
Anyone who could claim that record has deficiencies in RISK MANAGEMENT bucolic_frolic Jan 2023 #10

Deuxcents

(19,515 posts)
4. Yes! My mother used to say that n I never got it until I was older.
Sat Dec 31, 2022, 11:10 PM
Dec 2022

This would be her best example...

Metaphorical

(2,289 posts)
7. Glass Onion and Musk
Sun Jan 1, 2023, 06:25 AM
Jan 2023

I finally had a chance to watch Glass Onion on Netflix with my family this New Year's Eve. Well worth the watch if you've been following the rise and fall of Musk the Wunderkind and so many others of his kind.

bucolic_frolic

(46,736 posts)
10. Anyone who could claim that record has deficiencies in RISK MANAGEMENT
Sun Jan 1, 2023, 08:35 PM
Jan 2023

Musk's big gambles have always paid off. He had capital, ideas, expertise, drive. Now he's going dry.

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