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$49.5 Billion in U.S. Treasury? For These Billionaires, That’s Nothing – UnlistedNews

The Treasury Department’s cash balance fell to just under $49.5 billion on Wednesday as the United States inched closer to running out of cash to pay its bills.

That was significantly lower than the $316 billion the department had in operating cash, which is held at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, earlier this month.

How empty is the treasure chest? For comparison, $49.5 billion is on par with the gross domestic product of Azerbaijan and Tunisia and less than the net worth of the two dozen richest people in the world. Of course, much of those billionaires’ assets are tied up in stocks, rather than liquid assets.

Here’s a list of people with net worths higher than US cash reserves, according to Bloomberg News Billionaires Index starting Thursday. (Per the news agency’s editorial policy, its billionaire owner, Michael Bloomberg, is not considered for the index. Forbes, however, estimate your net worth to $94.5 billion.)

  • Bernard Arnault, CEO of luxury group LVMH: $189 billion

  • Elon Musk, CEO of SpaceX, Tesla and Twitter: $179 billion

  • Jeff Bezos, Amazon founder and CEO: $139 billion

  • Bill Gates, co-founder of Microsoft: 125,000 million dollars

  • Larry Ellison, co-founder and CEO of Oracle: $116 billion

  • Steve Ballmer, investor and former Microsoft CEO: $113 billion

  • Larry Page, co-founder of Google: $112 billion

  • Warren Buffett, investor: $111 billion

  • Sergey Brin, co-founder of Google: $106 billion

  • Mark Zuckerberg, co-founder and CEO of Facebook: $92.3 billion

  • Carlos Slim, investor: $90.3 billion

  • Françoise Bettencourt Meyers, heiress to the L’Oréal fortune and company board member: $87.2 billion

  • Mukesh Ambani, Chairman of energy group Reliance Industries: $83.7 billion

  • Amancio Ortega, founder of the fashion group Inditex: 67,100 million dollars

  • Jim Walton, heir to the Wal-Mart fortune: $66.6 billion

  • Rob Walton, heir to the Wal-Mart fortune: $64.9 billion

  • Alice Walton, heiress to the Wal-Mart fortune: $63.8 billion

  • Gautam Adani, founder and chairman of the Adani Group conglomerate: $63.4 billion

  • Jacqueline Mars, heiress and co-owner of candy maker Mars: $61.7 billion

  • John Mars, heir and chairman of Mars: $61.7 billion

  • Zhong Shanshan, founder and chairman of Nongfu Spring bottled water company: $61.6 billion

  • Julia Flesher Koch and family, heirs of businessman David Koch: 60.6 billion dollars

  • Charles Koch, CEO of industrial conglomerate Koch Industries: $60.4 billion

  • Michael Dell, CEO and Chairman of Dell Technologies: $53.4 billion

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