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1% of US GDP at the time, meaning that in these days’s terms Carnegie would be truly worth in between $370bn to $400bn (£277bn to £300bn). That figure places him ahead of John D Rockefeller, whose Common Oil organization controlled ninety% of US oil generation by 1880 and gives Carnegie a fortune worth in excess of twice that of Jeff Bezos.Musk