Billionaire wealth surged in 2024, says Oxfam

Switzerland. Oxfam International, in its latest assessment of global inequality timed to the opening of the World Economic Forum meeting, also predicts at least five trillionaires will crop up ...
We’ve reached a new era now, we are in the era of the billionaire,” said Jenny Ricks, general secretary of the human rights ...
The World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, is underway this week — and there are calls for taxing the extremely rich to ...
Switzerland. Oxfam International, in its latest assessment of global inequality timed to the opening of the World Economic Forum meeting, also predicts at least five trillionaires will crop up ...
Move over billionaires. The first trillionaires are on their way.
Oxfam’s new report estimates that 54 percent of billionaire wealth is either inherited or stems from monopoly power.
A leading NGO warned Monday of an emerging "aristocratic oligarchy" with massive political clout and primed to profit from ...