Bloomberg reported there was a $1 trillion gain made in 2017 by the world’s richest people.
Bloomberg noted that the $1 trillion gain, which was four times as high as 2016’s improvement, coincided with a 23% increase to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.
Bloomberg said Amazon founder Jeff Bezos surpassed Microsoft’s Bill Gates as the world’s richest person.
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