Tesla CEO Elon Musk is widely expected to be the first person to hit trillionaire status.
The world's richest accumulated massive wealth in 2024, which some speculate could reach even greater heights in the next few years.
The world will soon have five trillionaires. New research shows this will happen within a decade. Who will they be?
A new study from Oxfam projects that five individuals are on track to become trillionaires within the next ten years, amassing fortunes with 13 figures to their names. This projection marks a significant shift from a previous Oxfam report that indicated only one person would reach this milestone within a decade.
At current trends the charity Oxfam predicts up to five trillionaires are expected to emerge within the next decade.
The world’s richest man and Donald Trump ’s “First Buddy” Elon Musk is expected to hit the $1,000,000,0000,000 milestone even earlier, by 2027. The combined wealth of the world’s richest people surged from $13 trillion to $15 trillion in 2024 alone,
Move over billionaires. The first trillionaires are on their way.
Behar said the planet's five richest people — Tesla CEO Elon Musk, LVMH owner Bernard Arnault, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, Oracle founder Larry Ellison, and investor Warren Buffett — have seen their fortunes increase by 114 percent since 2020, and the prospect of someone amassing $1,000 billion — a trillion — is now very real.
Oxfam report said billionaire wealth grew by $2 trillion last year, or roughly $5.7 billion a day, three-times faster than in 2023.
As global elites arrive in Davos for the annual World Economic Forum, the global advocacy group Oxfam reported that billionaires' wealth increased three times faster in 2024 than the previous year, and it warned of an emerging “aristocratic oligarchy” with enormous political clout,
A leading NGO warned Monday of an emerging “aristocratic oligarchy” with massive political clout and primed to profit from Donald Trump’s presidency,