Aided by a white hot stock market, the average Forbes 400 member’s wealth is a record $11.3 billion, up 40% from last year. Eight are now worth $100 billion or more, up from just two a year ago. It has been a terrible year for many, but the good times keep on rolling for the nation’s richest. The 400…
Economic inequality is a major theme in the American political dialogue. As the country’s wealthiest people continually become richer at the expense of the poor, some research suggests they may actually become less happy and healthy. Economics correspondent Paul Solman reports on the nuanced data and the challenges of evaluating a society’s well-being. Stream your PBS favorites with the…
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Aided by a white hot stock market, the average Forbes 400 member’s wealth is a record $11.3 billion, up 40% from last year. Eight are now worth $100 billion or more, up from just two a year ago. It has been a terrible year for many, but the good times keep on rolling for the nation’s richest. The 400…
It’s been a year like no other, and we aren’t talking about the pandemic. There were rapid-fire public offerings, surging cryptocurrencies and skyrocketing stock prices. The number of billionaires on Forbes’ 35th annual list of the world’s wealthiest exploded to an unprecedented 2,755–660 more than a year ago. Of those, a record high 493 were new to the list–roughly…
Sen. Murphy (D-CT) joins Andrea Mitchell to discuss the ongoing negotiations on the $3.5 trillion infrastructure bill. “I think it is a really important question about whether we’re talking about $1.5 trillion in total spending or whether that’s total spending,” Murphy said. “What we’re proposing to do is to tax billionaires and millionaires, to ask corporations to pay their…
