Many American billionaires significantly increased their wealth over the past 17 months in Koronahep.
Data on the growth of billionaires leads an American non-governmental organization Institute for Policy Studies.
Researchers noted that “American billionaires became 1.8 trillion richer for a pandemic”, that is, they have grown them in almost two thirds (62%). ” In March 2020, it was estimated at about $ 3 trillion, and by August 17, up to $ 4.8 trillion increased. According to the estimated estimates, in March 2020, 614 people possessed a billion dollars or more. By August of the current year, the number of such people increased to 708.
The report states that the founder of Amazon Jeff Bezness Corporation, for example, has become over the past 17 months by $ 75 billion richer, the head of Tesla and Spacex Ilon Mask – $ 150.8 billion, the founder of Microsoft Bill Gates – by $ 32, 6 billion, and head of Facebook Mark Zuckerberg – $ 74.2 billion
In Institute for Policy Studies, they emphasize that a significant part of Americans faces serious financial difficulties. These problems aggravated during the period caused by a pandemic of the economic crisis. Researchers noted that over the past 17 months “more than 86 million Americans lost work, almost 38 million became infected with a virus, more than 625 thousand people died.”