Emma Agyemang

Elon Musk (above), judged the world’s richest person in April 2025, has an estimated net worth of US$342 billion. Globally, the average wealth of the top 0.0001% of the population grew on average 7.1% a year between 1987 and 2024, compared to 3.2% for the average adult, according to Gabriel Zucman of the Paris School of Economics and UC Berkeley.
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The problem with taxing the rich

2025-09-19T11:00:00.000Z