Musk, Bezos, Zhao Lead Richest Billionaires’ $1.4 Trillion Loss

For the vast majority of the world’s wealthiest people, 2022 was a year to forget.

It’s not just the money that was lost, though it was staggering — almost $1.4 trillion was wiped from the fortunes of the richest 500 alone, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. Plenty of the pain, it turns out, was self-inflicted: The alleged fraud by onetime crypto wunderkind Sam Bankman-Fried; the devastating war waged by Russia on Ukraine that spurred crippling sanctions on its business titans; and, of course, the antics of Elon Musk, the new owner of Twitter who’s worth $138 billion less than he was on Jan. 1. ...