Wealth of five richest men doubles as world to have first trillionaire ‘within years’
The world’s five richest men have more than doubled their fortunes in the last four years, while the wealth of the poorest has fallen, a new report has revealed.
Oxfam’s research on inequality and global corporate power has found that the fortunes of the top five richest billionaires – Elon Musk, Bernard Arnault and family, Jeff Bezos, Larry Ellison and Warren Buffett, according to Forbes – have shot up by 114 per cent, from £321 billion in March 2020 to £688 billion in November last year.
Meanwhile, the wealth of the
