When the Fed starts pumping money into the economy, two groups of people tend to gain the most, the already wealthy and the government. Prices for assets like land and stocks are shooting up. So who’s the richest person in your state likely taking advantage of the Fed’s largesse?
Below are each state’s wealthiest person according to Weath-X.
State | Person | Net Worth (Billion) |
Alabama | Marguerite Harbert | 1.5 |
Alaska | Robert Gillam | 0.4 |
Arizona | Bruce Halle Sr. | 4.4 |
Arkansas | James Walton | 37.1 |
California | Lawrence Ellison | 46.4 |
Colorado | Charles Ergen | 13.7 |
Connecticut | Raymond Dalio | 13.4 |
Delaware | Robert Gore | 0.8 |
Florida | Micky Arison | 5.9 |
Georgia | Anne Cox Chambers | 11.4 |
Hawaii | Jay Shidler | 0.7 |
Idaho | Frank Vandersloot | 1.2 |
Illinois | Samuel Zell | 3.8 |
Indiana | Gayle Cook | 4.8 |
Iowa | Dennis Albaugh | 1.6 |
Kansas | David Koch | 41.5 |
Kentucky | Brad M. Kelley | 1.9 |
Louisiana | Thomas Benson | 1.3 |
Maine | Leon Gorman | 0.8 |
Maryland | Theodore Lerner | 4.1 |
Massachusetts | Abigail Johnson | 16.9 |
Michigan | Kenneth Dart | 6.6 |
Minnesota | Whitney MacMillan | 3.8 |
Mississippi | Jim Barksdale | 0.6 |
Missouri | John L. Morris | 3.8 |
Montana | Dennis Washington | 5.6 |
Nebraska | Warren Buffett | 59.8 |
Nevada | Sheldon Adelson | 32.3 |
New Hampshire | Richard Cohen | 10 |
New Jersey | David Tepper | 7.9 |
New Mexico | John A Yates | 0.8 |
New York | Michael Bloomberg | 21.4 |
North Carolina | James Goodnight | 7.4 |
North Dakota | Gary Tharaldson | 0.9 |
Ohio | Leslie Wexner | 5.2 |
Oklahoma | George Kaiser | 9.8 |
Oregon | Phillip Knight | 14.7 |
Pennsylvania | Hansjorg Wyss | 9.2 |
Rhode Island | Jonathan Nelson | 1.5 |
South Carolina | Anita Zucker | 2.6 |
South Dakota | T. Denny Sanford | 1.3 |
Tennessee | Thomas Frist Jr. | 3.2 |
Texas | Michael Dell | 16 |
Utah | Blake Roney | 0.6 |
Vermont | Robert Stiller | 1.1 |
Virginia | Forrest Mars Jr. | 20.1 |
Washington | Bill Gates | 70.8 |
West Virginia | James Justice II | 1.6 |
Wisconsin | John Menard Jr | 7.3 |
Wyoming | John Martin | 0.3 |