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A fact from List of presidents of the United States by net worth appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 29 August 2012 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
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A malicious editor replaced "Donand Trump" with <<Yoda>> in the Trump paragraph. I have corrected that back to Donald Trump, but it may happen again. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:603:5180:6DC0:99D4:7832:78B8:F449 (talk) 02:59, 21 January 2023 (UTC)
This table could be improved with more information, for example, columns for occupation/source of wealth, wealth in then-dollars and the year (was it when they entered office? left office? died?). --Piledhigheranddeeper (talk) 17:23, 29 August 2012 (UTC)
Adding on to this, I believe the numbers cited here are likely inaccurate in several places: the only numbers I've looked into are Coolidge's, as he is the president I am currently reading into. Amity Shlaes' book, horribly biased as it is almost to the point of unreadability, has his J.P. Morgan account balance listed as 137,099.38$ on January 2, 1931, two years prior to his death. Per in2013dollars.com, this is well over a million dollars in 2010, yet he is listed as being worth less than a million. In addition to this money, she mentioned his daily columns are bringing in substantially more than 3,000$ weekly and that he had a habit of storing his money away in up to twenty different banks in case of a market recession, leading me to believe the numbers here could be DRASTICALLY incorrect. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 73.109.62.160 (talk) 01:38, 5 September 2016 (UTC)
Kennedy's range should be explained in a footnote. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 22:37, 29 August 2012 (UTC)
Kennedy should not have a range. He should be in as $125 mill. Even if the Kennedy's were worth 1 billion dollars that does not mean than JFK was worth that. The Time infograph said that he lived off a fund of 10 mill. He should really be put in as that. Where did Time get the 1 Billion number from?Claymorde (talk) 14 October 2014.
These numbers are all in 2010 dollars, which means that they are inflation-adjusted. The results will depend on the value you use for inflation adjustment.
It would be valuable if the table also showed their actual net worth, in unadjusted dollars. Geoffrey.landis (talk) 22:18, 20 January 2015 (UTC)
Washington's $500 million would be $11 billion in today's inflation value. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:1700:9460:5A40:D5AB:3CA0:E7A6:9D14 (talk) 20:20, 7 November 2018 (UTC)
The caption below Barack Obama states he is the 21st wealthiest president but directly below him in the spread sheet is Polk with 2 million more. He is either 22nd or 23rd.
Kennedy's wealth is listed as 125 - 1,000 million yet he is put on top. I think it is kind of ridiculous to have such a huge range in numbers
--65.182.252.177 (talk) 20:28, 8 July 2015 (UTC)
"but by no means were all early Presidents rich" --> the table claims exactly the opposite + no source for this statement.
Didn't Jefferson die in debt? How can his net worth be this high? I don't think this article is accurate. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.61.222.251 (talk) 02:20, 16 December 2015 (UTC)
~~The table appears to be Peak Net Worth, so it only looks for their maximum wealth anytime after (I assume) they became president. Jefferson may have been wealthy at one point, then fell into debt. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 104.129.196.116 (talk) 13:29, 26 October 2016 (UTC)
Hello, I'm not a wikipedia editor so I don't know how to fix this, but I wanted to report that the net worth column doesn't sort correctly. 94.36.128.46 (talk) 21:48, 15 February 2016 (UTC)
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What? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.163.233.11 (talk) 18:11, 17 November 2016 (UTC)
There is a move discussion in progress on Talk:United States Presidents and control of Congress which affects this page. Please participate on that page and not in this talk page section. Thank you. —RMCD bot 17:16, 23 November 2016 (UTC) A presidents income after holding office is irrevelant to this discussion. The info should only state net worth When Elected. After leaving office presidents become private citizens again. They're income after office is a completely different issue.==Is it not considered relevant the comparison of the wealth before the Presidency and after?== I think, assuming that most modern Presidents have a lot of income after their presidency ends, it would be very relevant to see if it is possible to measure the effect of the Presidency in their wealth. Regards --Basquetteur (talk) 15:00, 15 March 2017 (UTC)
Donald Trumps net worth is completely unknown, with only estimates available.
Trump only declared his assets, and never declared his debt, which could possibly exceed his assets.
I'm not making any claims, but a reliable reference is required for making claims on trumps net worth, and this article currently fails at that.
Steve348 (talk) 15:10, 18 May 2017 (UTC)
agree this should be deleted. no source for his wealth. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 38.125.15.118 (talk) 15:01, 4 August 2017 (UTC)
Also, why are Trump's tax returns discussed? Tax returns would reveal annual income, but not net wealth -- i.e., in theory, Trump could own a warehouse full of gold bricks but still have zero income for a given year. Income and wealth are different (albeit related) topics. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 129.176.151.21 (talk) 17:09, 17 December 2018 (UTC)
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The url given, (http://247wallst.com/special-report/2016/11/10/trump-becomes-the-richest-president-the-net-worth-of-the-american-presidents/) redirects to (https://247wallst.com/).
@effeietsanders Please disregard my reply. I was having a mere network issue when trying to use the link. My apologies! Dynen (talk) 15:18, 31 August 2020 (UTC)
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What should be the number displayed? The current number (3.1B) is actually based on 247wallst.com and not Forbes, as the footnote claims. If you check the latest Forbes page about Trump's wealth, two numbers seem relevant: their 2015 estimate (4.5B) and their 2020 most recent estimate (2.1B). If the update would be based on losses/profits (his wealth changed and he lost over 50% of his wealth in the past 5 years), then the 2015 number would be most relevant to mention, because the article claims to discuss peak wealth. However, if we assume it to be a more accurate estimate of roughly the same fortune, then the most recent number is more relevant - his wealth didn't really change, Forbes just has better insights into it. Given the 50% drop, I am leaning towards the more recent number under that argument, and we should instead include the 2.1B number. Any thoughts? effeietsanders 22:52, 14 June 2020 (UTC)
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Was this list adjusted for inflation dating back to the 1700's? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:1700:9460:5A40:D5AB:3CA0:E7A6:9D14 (talk) 20:13, 7 November 2018 (UTC)
New research from files released from the Truman library shows that Harry Truman drastically undervalued his wealth; he technically embezzled his White House expenses account (which was supposed to be used for official entertaining), instead, he stuffed it away in safety deposit boxes. In his draft will of 1953, Truman listed assets of $650,000 (1953 dollars), which would be $6.105 million in today's dollars. He was paid $670,000 for his memoirs in 1955, which would be worth almost $6.8 million in today's money, much of which he also stuffed away. His peak net worth should be closer to $12 million. 98.10.165.90 (talk) 15:50, 6 August 2021 (UTC) Here is the reference
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/07/the-truman-show.html?utm_source=pocket_mylist
The article says the table is based on data from a website called 24/7 Wall Street. That appears to be a garden variety stock tip gossip site with no particularly qualified editors for this sort of economic calculation -- inflation adjustment and valuation. Basically, the whole article looks like it should be blanked.
Thoughts? SPECIFICO talk 19:09, 31 August 2021 (UTC)
Why is Theodore Roosevelt's net worth missing from the list? He inherited money from his father, and he owned Sagamore Hill, a ranch in North Dakota and a small cabin in rural Virginia-surely he had notable wealth — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:47:4380:D550:7D2A:B678:5BE5:62B1 (talk) 02:01, 9 October 2021 (UTC)
A distinctiom should be made to which presidents were born into wealth and which had to work their way through life. 2601:346:C201:60C0:61E0:C9D:9BB4:CAA0 (talk) 02:23, 13 July 2022 (UTC)