{"id":76830,"date":"2021-01-08T01:46:23","date_gmt":"2021-01-08T06:46:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=76830"},"modified":"2021-01-08T01:33:35","modified_gmt":"2021-01-08T06:33:35","slug":"elon-musk-is-now-the-richest-person-in-the-world-passing-jeff-bezos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/01\/2021\/elon-musk-is-now-the-richest-person-in-the-world-passing-jeff-bezos.html","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk is now the richest person in the world, passing Jeff Bezos"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(CNBC) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/elon-musk\/\">Elon Musk<\/a> just became the richest person in the world, with a net worth of more than $185 billion. Thursday\u2019s increase in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/?symbol=TSLA\">Tesla\u2019s<\/a> share price pushed Musk past <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/jeff-bezos\/\">Jeff Bezos<\/a>, who had been the richest person since 2017 and is currently worth about $184 billion. Musk\u2019s wealth surge over the past year marks the fastest rise to the top of the rich list in history <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2021\/01\/07\/elon-musk-is-now-the-richest-person-in-the-world-passing-jeff-bezos-.html\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNBC) Elon Musk just became the richest person in the world, with a net worth of more than $185 billion. Thursday\u2019s increase in Tesla\u2019s share price pushed Musk past Jeff Bezos, who had been the richest person since 2017 and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76830"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76831,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76830\/revisions\/76831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}