The World Has Accumulated $215 Trillion Of Private Wealth – But Who Holds It All? About 73.5% – Is Held By Just 10 Countries

by visualcapitalist The 10 Wealthiest Countries The Chart of the Week is a weekly Visual Capitalist feature on Fridays. According to market research company New World Wealth, the world has accumulated $215 trillion in private wealth, a 12% increase over the last year. Incredibly, …

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Venezuela: It was once the fourth-wealthiest country in the world. Now, people are starving to death due to lack of food. It still has one of the world’s largest oil reserves, but it lacks toilet paper….

Like any Ponzi scheme, socialism provides an initial illusion of success before it collapses on its own faulty principles. It’s that brief illusion that can make socialism so seductive to many who feel they are missing out on life’s abundance. …

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Trump Lays the Seeds to World War III

by Martin Armstrong   Konstantin Kosachev, the head of International Affairs for Russia’s Federal Assembly, publicly stated: “There can be only one political assessment: It is a blatant violation of international law and it is an attack on a sovereign state …

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Where the World’s Ultra Rich Population Lives

by visualcapitalist We’ve recently broken down data on the global population of millionaires by city, and even the residences of the world’s top 50 billionaires. But still, there’s something extremely interesting about dissecting the lifestyles of the ultra rich – particularly in looking …

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