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Just How Rich Is Michael Bloomberg?

Imagine Yankee Stadium filled with individuals worth $1 million each; Bloomberg is richer than all of them combined.
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How rich is Michael Bloomberg?

We can measure it in numerical terms: He is worth an estimated $64 billion. That is 64 single billions, 64,000 millions, or 64,000,000 thousands. We can measure it in comparative terms: He is worth half as much as Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates, and 20 times as much as Oprah Winfrey and Donald Trump, though who . Bloomberg has as much net worth as 700,000 average American households, and more money than every poor household in the United States combined..

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