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The combined fortunes of America’s billionaires ballooned by $434 billion during the coronavirus pandemic, even as millions of Americans lost their jobs, a new report says. That marked a 15 percent increase in the total net worth of the nation’s more than 600 billionaires between March 18 and May 19 as much of the country …
The combined fortunes of America’s billionaires ballooned by $434 billion during the coronavirus pandemic, even as millions of Americans lost their jobs, a new report says.
That marked a 15 percent increase in the total net worth of the nation’s more than 600 billionaires between March 18 and May 19 as much of the country was locked down to stop the virus from spreading, according to the report from Americans for Tax Fairness and the Institute for Policy Studies, two left-leaning think tanks.
“While millions risk their lives and livelihoods as first responders and front line workers, these billionaires benefit from an economy and tax system that is wired to funnel wealth to the top,” the Institute for Policy Studies’ Chuck Collins said in a Thursday statement.
The surge in wealth came as more than 38 million people applied for unemployment benefits in nine weeks with widespread lockdown measures forcing businesses to close and lay off workers.
The nation’s No. 1 and No. 3 billionaires — Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos and Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg — added nearly nearly $60 billion to their fortunes over two months, representing about 14 percent of the total growth, according to the think tanks’ analysis of Forbes data.
Both tech tycoons have benefitted from their companies’ soaring stock prices. Amazon shares rose 38 percent from March 18 to an all-time high of $2,525.45 on Thursday, while Facebook’s climbed 61.4 percent in that time to a high of $237.20.
Other big winners include Jeff Bezos’s ex-wife, MacKenzie Bezos, whose fortune grew by about a third to $48 billion; financial media honcho and former presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg, who saw a 25.7 percent surge to $60.3 billion; and Tesla CEO Elon Musk with a 48 percent jump to $36.4 billion, according to the report.
A previous Institute for Policy Studies report showed America’s billionaires getting almost 10 percent richer in three early weeks of the virus crisis from March 18 to April 10.
