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one% of US GDP at enough time, which means that in these days’s conditions Carnegie would be truly worth amongst $370bn to $400bn (£277bn to £300bn). That figure puts him forward of John D Rockefeller, whose Normal Oil company controlled ninety% of US oil output by 1880 and offers Carnegie a fortune worth in excess of twice that of Jeff Bezos.c