Elon Musk: The First Person To Lose $200B

He’s lost 64% of his peak net worth of $340 billion.

Elon Musk is the first person in history to lose $200 billion. His current net worth of $132 billion is 64% below his peak net worth of $340 billion.

But before you start a GoFundMe for Elon, check this out.

He could lose $339 billion, or 99.7% of his net worth, and still be a billionaire—a mindbogglingly large amount of money that’s hard to comprehend.

But let’s try to put it in perspective. Today, risk-free 20-year Treasury bonds are yielding around 4%.

If you put $1 billion into those Treasuries, you’d make around $40 million per year. Even after taxes, you’d be pulling in $25 million annually, or $69,000 per day—risk-free for decades.

That’s just with $1 billion!