mo4ch:>Inequality at record levels as new billionaire emerges every 2 days – Oxfam | Mo4ch News

The gap between the super-rich and the rest of the world has never been wider, with 26 people now owning the same amount of wealth as 3.8 billion of the less privileged, global charity Oxfam said in a new report.The new report, titled "Public Good or Private Wealth," sheds light on the continued accumulation of wealth by the richest, as well as the reverse trend for the poorest half of the word, which grew some 11 percent poorer last year.During the same period, the assets of those at the top of the wealth pyramid, the billionaires, have skyrocketed, increasing by $900bn in 2018, or by a whopping $2.5bn a day. Between 2017 and 2018, a new billionaire was created every two days, the report says.Also on rt.comWorld’s richest 1% bagged 82% of global wealth in 2017, while poorest half got nothing – OxfamIn comparison to the previous year, when 43 people owned about the same as the poorer half of the world, in 2018 it took only 26 billionaires to match the wealth of 3.8 billion p…