Everyone Has a Wealth Number. What’s Yours?

Interesting idea. At our firm we talk in commas (e.g. “that’s a 3-comma person”)

But their bottom end of the scale is woefully wrong. The difference between zero dollars, and negative 100,000 dollars (such as some homeowners in 2009) is immense. To crowd them all as “-2” is, well, a bad fudge. Bloomberg should and can do better than this.

If goodwill could be valued as an asset, it would far outnumber actual exchangeable assets.

Congrats to Bloomberg on discovering Worthington's Law: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6WEo9Ix_7Q

I'm a man, not a number.