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Episode: Wealth of billionaires like Trump, Musk soared in 2024, report says during meeting in Davos
Description: Billionaires’ wealth grew three times faster in 2024 than the year before, while the number of the world’s poor has barely changed over the last quarter-century, a top anti-poverty group reported in January.
Oxfam International, in its latest assessment of global inequality timed for an annual gathering of elites in Switzerland, also predicts at least five trillionaires will crop up over the next decade—a year after forecasting that one would appear over that span.
The sharp-edged report came as the World Economic Forum in January hosted some 3,000 people including business executives, government and civic group leaders, academics, and others at its...