What is Paul Krugman's Net Worth and Salary? Paul Krugman is an American economist and author who has a net worth of $5 million. Paul Krugman writes for the New York Times and teaches at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Previously, he taught at such schools as MIT and Princeton University, and was the president of the Eastern Economic Association. Regarded as one of the...

A $200 billion loss of wealth is enough to qualify Musk's as the biggest billionaire loss of the year, but it's also much more than that – probably the most money anyone in modern history has ever lost.