Most of this "decimated" wealth never existed in the first place. Why do people pretend otherwise? So they can throw around big numbers in a silly article?
Lets not post links to cnn anymore. They tend to be misleading, and rarely involve more than surface analysis of the situation. The statistics involved are often either inaccurate, irrelevant, or both. The methodology used to create the statistics is rarely (if ever) stated. I'm sure we can find a better source for economic news.