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The Davos Blind Eye: How the Rich Eat the Poor and the World

The Big Lies

Source:

Prof. John McMurtry

Global Research, January 24, 2016

The just-released Oxfam Davos Report which the mass media have ignored arrestingly shows that 62 individuals – 388 in 2010 – now own more wealth than 50% of the world’s population. More shockingly, it reports from its uncontested public sources that this share of wealth by half of the world’s people has collapsed by over 40% in just the last five years.

Yet the big

Global Inequality: The World’s 400 Richest Billionaires Get Richer, Adding $92bn in 2014

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by:

Enrique Suarez

http://www.wix.com/suarezenrique/delta

The 400 richest billionaires in the world added another $92 billion to their names in 2014 and now sit on assets worth $4.1 trillion, but Russia’s super-wealthy have been hit by economic problems resulting from the Ukraine crisis.

The biggest winner in 2014 was China’s Jack Ma, who co-founded the Alibaba Group Holding ltd, (BABA), China’s largest