richest
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And the richest 0.1%, who owned 8.6% of all wealth when Reagan left office, now own 14.5%.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 5, 2026
Or, to put it another way, out of a random group of 1,000 Americans, the richest single person owns about six times as much as the poorest 500 put together.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 5, 2026
On that basis, he easily surpasses John D. Rockefeller, the richest American who ever lived before Musk.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 3, 2026
It could also make Musk -- already the world's richest man -- humanity's first trillionaire, analysts say.
From Barron's • Jun. 3, 2026
North of Seattle the swollen Skagit River sliced though earthen dikes near its mouth and sent tidal salt water spilling across twenty thousand acres of the richest farmland in the state.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
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