At current trends the charity Oxfam predicts up to five trillionaires are expected to emerge within the next decade.

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According to data cited by Oxfam, between 1970 and 2023, countries in the global south paid around $3.3 trillion in interest to creditors in the global north. The lopsided global economic system thus ...

In 1980, there were 13 billionaires in the US. Now there are more than 700. Global wealth inequality is off the charts, it's never been greater. 40 years - 1985, back then I was a regular ...

At least five people will become trillionaires within the next decade as billionaire wealth surges to “shocking” levels, says poverty charity Oxfam. In its latest report Takers Not Makers, released on ...

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Northwestern professor Jeffrey Winters says he knows how to get billionaires to jump off the Forbes list of richest Americans ...

Inheritance taxes are economically efficient and reduce inequality between those who work for an income and those who earn ...

Imagine earning $3.5 million ($US2 million) a day - that was the average daily income for the world's billionaires last year.