The year of Covid-19 was a great time for super wealthy, Beijing now home to more billionaires than any other city
Tech billionaire Elon Musk outlines his plans to colonise Mars at Mexico's International Astronautical Congress. As Covid-19 led to dislocation and suffering across the globe, the world’s wealthiest people were amassing ever more vast fortunes, the 2021 According to Forbes – based on stock prices and exchange rates on March 5 – all the billionaires in the world are now worth US$13.1 trillion (NZ$18.67t), a whopping increase from US$8 trillion in 2020. Jeff Bezos (left) and Elon Musk – according to Forbes the world’s wealthiest and second-wealthiest people. There are now an unpre...