Global wealth is concentrated at the top. This is true for all countries to varying degrees. Yet—according to the World Inequality Database—in almost all nations, the richest 10% hold more than 50% of ...

The richest 10 percent of the world’s population now owns three-quarters of all personal wealth, according to the newly released World Inequality Report 2026. Income is not much different, where the ...

Debates about inequality often jump straight from moral outrage to policy wish lists, skipping the harder question of what a radically different distribution of wealth would do to growth itself. If ...

Ray Dalio, billionaire founder of Bridgewater Associates, once warned that if America didn’t address its widening wealth gap, the rich might soon face mobs with pitchforks. Dalio stated, "I believe ...

The richest 10% in the eurozone held 57.3% of total net household wealth in the final quarter of 2024. This is 2.8 percentage points higher than in the same period of 2009, when their share was 54.5%, ...

The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts. Author: Tom Kemeny, University of Toronto One need only glance at headlines about Jeff ...