Forbes released its 39th annual Forbes 400 list of the wealthiest Americans earlier this month. Collectively, the magazine reports, the 400 are worth a record total of approximately $3.2 trillion—up $240 billion from a year ago.
Liberal Amazon founder and chief executive officer Jeff Bezos is at No. 1 on the attention-getting list for the third year in a row, with a current net worth of about $179 billion. The top 25 Forbes 400 members are collectively worth more than $1.425 trillion, or almost 44% of that which the whole list is worth.
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