These Eight Billionaires own half of all the world’s wealth
Bill Gates, Amancio Ortega and Warren Buffett top the list of billionaires whose wealth accounts for the equivalent of 3.6 billion people around the world in their bank accounts. Eight men have the same wealth as the poorest half of the world’s population, or 3.6 billion people, according to a report by the non-governmental organization Oxfam, which was unveiled at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. The eight richest people in the world are (in order, according to their…