Ted Cruz just claimed Fidel Castro was a billionaire to make a point about communist leaders stealing wealth. The source? A 2006 Forbes piece that counted the *value of nationalized firms he controlled* as personal net worth. That's not how any of this works. It's the same flawed math that counts a government asset as individual wealth, which would make every public official in every country bizarrely rich by the same logic. Cruz is laundering a bad metric into a political talking point.