Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos and Warren Buffett are richer than poorest half of US, by Rupert Neate.

The three richest people in the US – Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos and Warren Buffett – own as much wealth as the bottom half of the US population, or 160 million people. …

“Our wealthiest 400 now have more wealth combined than the bottom 64% of the US population, an estimated 80m households or 204 million people,” the report says.

The report says the “billionaire class” continues to “pull apart from the rest of us” at the fastest rate ever recorded. “We have not witnessed such extreme levels of concentrated wealth and power since the first gilded age a century ago.”

Due to the financialization of the economy, which in turn is greatly assisted by being able to create paper currency out of thin air.