From Forbes, May 2:
The top 10 richest people in the world (May 2026)There’s a new member of the $300 billion club and a second sibling from America’s richest family among the planet’s ten wealthiest people.
April was a great month to be a billionaire, as the S&P 500 and Nasdaq soared by 9% and 15%, respectively, boosting the fortunes of the world’s ten richest people–all of them Americans–to $2.7 trillion combined as of May 1 at 12 a.m. Eastern time. As a group, they’re $260 billion richer than they were a month ago, but no one fared better than Google cofounder Larry Page, who became the third person ever worth at least $300 billion on Thursday....
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A few previous looks at great wealth:
