Bill Gates passes Jeff Bezos for title of world’s richest person

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For the first time in 2 years, there's a new top billionaire, thanks to Microsoft's surging stock — and Jeff Bezos’s divorce.

Bill Gates is back on top, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, with a fortune of $110 billion as of Friday’s market close. Bezos is just below, at $109 billion.

According to the Bloomberg list, Gates’ fortune has increased by $19.5 billion this year, while Bezos’s has fallen by $16.2 billion. See: This is what the net worth of the world’s elite would look like if Elizabeth Warren’s tax plan had been in effect since 1982

 

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