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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
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
His first big breakout came in the dot-com boom, when internet investments made him the world’s richest man for just three days—in his words—before the bubble burst and wiped out 99% of SoftBank’s value.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 4, 2026
If it happens, it would be the largest merger in history, coming after the largest IPO in history, with both companies led by the richest man in the world.
From Barron's • Jun. 1, 2026
And all this is happening in the richest and freest country in the world, and in the middle of the twentieth century.
From "The Fire Next Time" by James Baldwin
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