Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos Top The Forbes List Of Richest Americans | Forbes

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🗓️ 26 October 2023

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Elon Musk again tops the list, worth an estimated $251 billion—the exact same as last year, despite a wild 12 months that included him being forced to buy Twitter for far more than it was worth, watching Tesla stock crater, getting into internet spats with the likes of the Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky and the foreign minister of Taiwan, challenging Mark Zuckerberg to a cage fight—then adding tens of billions to his fortune as Tesla stock came roaring back. Stay Connected Forbes newsletters: https://newsletters.editorial.forbes.com Forbes on Facebook: http://fb.com/forbes Forbes Video on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/forbes Forbes Video on Instagram: http://instagram.com/forbes More From Forbes: http://forbes.com Forbes covers the intersection of entrepreneurship, wealth, technology, business and lifestyle with a focus on people and success. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The rich people in America are 500 billion dollars richer
0:05.6	aided by rebound in stock markets and an AI-driven tech boom. They now hold 4.5
0:11.2	trillion dollars in wealth tying a record set in 2021.
0:17.0	Hi everybody I'm Briting Lewis with Forbes Breaking News.
0:21.0	Joining me now is Senior Wealth Editor Chase Peterson Withhorn.
0:24.4	Chase, thanks for coming on.
0:26.2	Yeah, thanks for having me.
0:27.7	I want to extend a big congratulations.
0:30.4	The Forbes 400 has dropped. before we get right into it.
0:35.0	Can you explain what is the Forbes 400?
0:38.0	Yeah, so the Forbes 400 is our ranking of the 400 richest people in America.
0:44.3	We've been doing it since 1982.
0:47.3	It started out, you had to have $100 million
0:49.6	to make the list, and now you have to have $29 billion dollars to make the list so it's
0:54.5	harder and harder to be one of the four hundred richest Americans and we've
0:57.4	been tracking it for a long time.
0:59.0	2.9 billion dollars to make the list that's a huge number and that's probably why you
1:05.2	reported it's a good year to be on the list so can you describe the
1:09.2	2023 landscape for us a bit?
1:11.1	yeah so you know tends, the rich tend to get richer.
1:16.0	You know, there's a lot of truth to that statement and we've sort of collected the data to sort of,
1:21.0	that sort of bears that out for many years but last year was sort of an
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