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Felix Salmon

Billionaires increased their wealth by $2.5 billion per day in 2018

The world's billionaires increased their wealth by $2.5 billion per day in 2018. There are now more than 2,200 of them, and the amount of wealth stored in offshore tax havens was estimated at $7.6 trillion in 2015.

Reproduced from Oxfam; Chart: Axios Visuals

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