• Wealth of world’s 400 richest billionaires rose $92 billion in 2014 - World Socialist Web Site

    http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2015/01/03/bill-j03.html

    Figure hits $4.1 trillion
    Wealth of world’s 400 richest billionaires rose $92 billion in 2014
    By Andre Damon
    3 January 2015

    The wealthiest 400 people in the world saw their combined net worth grow by $92 billion last year, hitting $4.1 trillion. The bonanza for the super-rich was underwritten by governments and central banks around the world, which fueled surging stock markets and record corporate profits by pumping hundreds of billions into the financial markets.

    The figures were provided by the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, which was initiated in 2012 and tracks the wealth of the 400 richest people in the world.

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