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Zuckerberg could buy every Californian free In-N-Out for almost 10 months. (Mark Lennihan | AP)
CALIFORNIA The coronavirus has wreaked havoc on the U.S. economy, yet billionaires in California and across the globe are significantly wealthier than they were a year ago, according to this year s recently released Forbes World s Billionaires List.
The number of billionaires on Forbes 35th annual list jumped to an unprecedented 2,755 people, 660 more than a year ago. Altogether, they are worth $13.1 trillion, up from $8 trillion in 2020.
Among those on the list, 86 percent are richer today than they were a year ago.
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The numbers will likely spark outrage, writes Forbes Chief Content Officer Randall Lane. There s no getting around a collective $5 trillion wealth surge during a pandemic, when most of the world felt scared, sick, besieged, he wrote in a comprehensive essay titled Operation Wealth Speed.
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Forbes recently released its list of the world s billionaires and two on the list live in Chester County. (Shutterstock)
CHESTER COUNTY, PA The presumably richest person in Chester County lives in Coatesville, the second wealthiest in Paoli. Campbell Soup Company heiress Mary Alice Dorrance Malone, of Coatesville, was listed as worth $3.7 billion in the most recent Forbes magazine listing of billionaires. Dorrance Malone is third in ranking among Philadelphia area billionaires, ranked in net worth behind Victoria Mars, Philadelphia candy and pet food billionaire who is worth $7.8 billion, and insurance billionaire Thomas Hagen, worth $4.3 billion, of Erie.
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Patriots owner Robert Kraft is still one of the richest men in Massachusetts by a comfortable margin. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola)
The coronavirus has wreaked havoc on the U.S. economy, yet billionaires in Massachusetts and across the globe are significantly wealthier than they were a year ago, according to this year s recently released Forbes World s Billionaires List.
The number of billionaires on Forbes 35th annual list jumped to an unprecedented 2,755 people, 660 more than a year ago. Altogether, they are worth $13.1 trillion, up from $8 trillion in 2020.
Among those on the list, 86 percent are richer today than they were a year ago. No one on the Massachusetts list lost any money, according to Forbes.