‘Brazen’ political influence of rich laid bare as wealth of billionaires reaches $18.3tn, says Oxfam

Governments opting for oligarchy while brutally repressing protests over austerity and lack of jobs, charity report says

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AI boom adds more than half a trillion dollars to wealth of US tech barons in 2025

Elon Musk’s net worth increased by nearly 50% to $645bn with founders of Google and Amazon also seeing huge wealth gains

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Record numbers becoming billionaires through inheritance, UBS report finds

Swiss bank says bequests made 91 people billionaires, while overall number jumped from 2,682 in 2024 to 9,919 this year

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Tesla offers Elon Musk a trillion-dollar pay package

CEO will have to increase the value of his electric car company from just over $1tn to $8.5tn over 10 years.

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Tesla offers Elon Musk a trillion-dollar pay package

CEO will have to increase the value of his electric car company from just over $1tn to $8.5tn over 10 years.

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Relying on rich listers for social services leads to whimsical government failures and loss of #democracy, as we can see from the Trump/Musk dispute. Instead a fairer distribution of wealth underpins freedom and is a vital foundation for democracy. #nzpol #richlists
‘Saying Trump is dangerous is not enough’: Bernie Sanders on Biden, billionaires – and why the Democrats failed

The senator and twice Democratic presidential hopeful is on tour with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez trying to build a new progressive movement. He reveals why he thinks Republicans are scared to speak up and what went wrong for Kamala Harris in 2024

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It’s not a rich list – it’s gone far beyond that. We need to talk about ‘extreme wealth’ | Dhananjayan Sriskandarajah https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/may/17/sunday-times-rich-list-extreme-wealth-damage #SundayTimes #Inequality #Richlists #Politics #Society #Media
It’s not a rich list – it’s gone far beyond that. We need to talk about ‘extreme wealth’

We recognise extreme poverty as ruinous, but this turbo-charged affluence is deeply damaging too. Treat it as such, says Dhananjayan Sriskandarajah of the New Economics Foundation

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Charlotte Tilbury tops list of UK’s richest beauty entrepreneurs

Sunday Times estimates the celebrity makeup artist, who founded her brand in 2013, has amassed £350m fortune

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Trump’s victory adds record $64bn to wealth of richest top 10

Share surge increases Elon Musk’s fortune by $26bn in a day as Jeff Bezos, Sergey Brin and Bill Gates also benefit

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