U.S. Billionaire Bonanza 2017: Three Men Now Own More Wealth Than the Bottom Half of the Country Combined | Alternet
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One of the big findings from this year’s study is that just three people—Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates, and Warren Buffet—own more wealth than the bottom half of the country combined. In the first edition of Billionaire Bonanza, published in December 2015, our big fact was that twenty people –enough than could fit on a Gulfstream 650 luxury jet, had as much wealth Just two as the bottom half of the country. Now they could fit in the cockpit.