Elon Musk to earn around $100 billion in 2023; Gautam Adani’s net worth sees biggest drop after Hindenburg report

2023 has indeed been prosperous for the richest of the rich. While ordinary people are struggling to earn a penny for two meals a day and a roof over their heads, the world’s richest billionaires have accumulated much more than they lost during the pandemic. The world’s top rich added more than $852 billion in the year of the Black Rabbit. Each member of the Bloomberg Billionaires Index earned an average of $14 million every day of the first quarter of 2023. At the top is Tesla boss Elon Musk who added around $96.6 billion to his net worth.

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#Elon Musk topped the list of the 10 richest people in the world with a net worth of $237.7 billion, while the business tycoon #BernardArnault After maintaining the top rank for the first five months of 2023, he dropped to the second spot in early June.#forbes

— Forbes Middle East (@Forbes_MENA_) 2 July 2023

The world’s 500 richest people added $852 billion to their wealth in the first half of 2023. Each member of the Bloomberg Billionaires Index earned an average of $14 million per day in the first half. It was the billionaires’ best half since the back half of 2020, when the economy improved… pic.twitter.com/kZd1vo0Prx

– Holger Zschaepitz (@SchuldenSuhner) 3 July 2023

Indian industrialist Gautam Adani was the biggest hit among the billionaires after the Hindenburg revelations. During the first quarter of 2023, the homegrown billionaire’s net worth saw a decline of over $60.2 billion. ranked 21st richest Bloomberg Billionaire IndexAdani’s net worth currently stands at $60.3 billion. But forbes real time billionaire indexThe Adani Group chairman is at the 24th position with a net worth of $51.5 billion. Meanwhile, India and Asia’s richest billionaire, Reliance Chairman Mukesh Ambani is ranked 13th on the Bloomberg index with a net worth of $90.6 billion. Ambani is also at the same position in the Forbes index with a net worth of $92.7 billion.

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Gautam Adani’s net worth declined the most by $60.2 billion in a six-month period pic.twitter.com/Hwdo9RjBMd

— Ivan (@StockMKTNewz) 3 July 2023

Apart from Musk, this year has also been favorable for meta boss Mark Zuckerberg. 2022 ended on a bad note for the company, with mass layoffs at the company and the fall of Zak’s ambitious Metaverse project. However, the net worth of the maverick saw an increase during the first quarter of 2023. The net worth of the meta CEO increased by $58.9 billion. He is ranked 10th in the Forbes index with a net worth of $101.5 billion. In Bloomberg’s index, Mark is ranked 9th with a net worth of $104 billion.

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Meanwhile, the general public is excited about Musk and Zak’s cage fight. The contest will be a good distraction as the richest few loot all the wealth and the rest of the human race is mired in an existential crisis.

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