{"id":22623,"date":"2020-07-21T11:41:05","date_gmt":"2020-07-21T07:41:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/?p=22623"},"modified":"2020-07-21T11:41:07","modified_gmt":"2020-07-21T07:41:07","slug":"jeff-bezos-added-13-billion-to-his-net-worth-on-monday-his-highest-one-day-increase-yet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/2020\/07\/21\/jeff-bezos-added-13-billion-to-his-net-worth-on-monday-his-highest-one-day-increase-yet\/","title":{"rendered":"Jeff Bezos added $13 billion to his net worth on Monday, his highest one day increase yet"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Jeff Bezos, the owner of Amazon, added a record $13 billion to his net worth on Monday, Bloomberg reported. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, Bezos&#8217; is now worth $189.3 billion. While the US economy has shrunk due to the coronavirus pandemic, the founder of the online shopping giant has gained $74 billion this year. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His record is the highest anyone has earned in a single day since Bloomberg Billionaires Index was started in 2012.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bezos founded Amazon in 1995 and the company has now grown to &#8220;one of the most valuable, powerful companies on the planet,&#8221; as Business Insider previously reported. Business Insider also reported that Bezos is on track to be the first trillionaire by 2026. <br><br>However, Bezos isn&#8217;t the only billionaire to see his wealth grow throughout the pandemic. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A new analysis by the Americans for Tax Fairness and the Institute for Policy Studies found that the more than 600 Americans billionaires had their wealth grow an average of $42 billion during each week of the coronavirus pandemic between March 18 and July 16, for a total of over $700 billion over the course of the pandemic. <br><br>Business Insider<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeff Bezos, the owner of Amazon, added a record $13 billion to his net worth on Monday, Bloomberg reported. According to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, Bezos&#8217; is now worth $189.3 billion. While the US economy has shrunk due to the coronavirus pandemic, the founder of the online shopping giant has gained $74 billion this year. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22624,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-economy","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22623"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22623\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22625,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22623\/revisions\/22625"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}