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How to Join the Trump Boom Billionaires

Thanks to quite a bit of help from the world’s richest person, Donald Trump is now set to reoccupy the White House in January.

Oh, and Elon Musk got something out of it, too.

On Wednesday, November 6, the day after the election, the markets soared.

The S&P 500 was up 2.5%, the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 3.6%, and the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite gained nearly 3%.

And thanks to his hefty stake in Tesla Inc. (TSLA), Musk added roughly $26.5 billion to his net worth that day, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.

That brought his total fortune to around $307 billion (it’s inched back a bit since then).

Musk isn’t the only billionaire who benefited from this Trump boom.

In fact, Bloomberg estimates that the world’s 10 richest people gained about $64 billion on the day after the election.

No wonder folks like Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, and Tim Cook all publicly congratulated Trump.

And that makes us wonder…

How much money does it take to be “wealthy” in America?

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