All statistics of this type are based on substracting debt. If a headline like "Elon Musk is -100 times as wealthy as Jérôme Kerviel"[1] would strike you as abs

All statistics of this type are based on substracting debt. If a headline like "Elon Musk is -100 times as wealthy as Jérôme Kerviel"[1] would strike you as absurd, these headlines are no less so. [1]: https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2012/11/meet-the-most-indebted-man-in-the-world/264413/ https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2012/11/meet-th...