The stock market, while generally bullish all year, is nothing if not volatile. Billionaire Elon Musk, whose fortune is mostly tied up in Tesla (NASDAQ: TSLA) stock, dropped from richest person in the world since early January to the second richest, behind Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos. When Tesla stock dropped nearly 8% on Monday, Musk lost $13.5 billion, bringing his net worth to $176.2 billion. Bezos reclaims his spot as the world’s wealthiest person, with a net worth of $182.1 billion, Forbes reports. See: How Much Is Elon Musk Worth? Find: Biggest Stock Market Surprises at the Start of 2021 Musk hasn’t been one to focus on his financial standing, as long as he has access to the resources that allow him to fulfill his goals for humankind. In an interview with PBS, Musk said, “This is not about wealth accumulation for me personally. It’s just that I think this [climate change] is a very important problem and it’s got<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The stock market, while generally bullish all year, is nothing if not volatile. Billionaire Elon Musk, whose fortune is mostly tied up in Tesla (NASDAQ: TSLA) stock, dropped from richest<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,24],"tags":[33,27,29,279,28],"class_list":["post-3197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-stocks","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-markets","tag-nasdaq","tag-stocks"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3197\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}