The world's richest people list as of January 2026 is dominated by Americans, with 9 of the top 10 billionaires hailing from the U.S.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Miller: Mark Zuckerberg was the lowest-paid employee at Meta in 2024, and he made US$1. But he is not the only very rich person ...

In 2025, the United States economy delivered a stark verdict on who the system is working for. The richest households saw their fortunes swell at record pace while most workers, renters and borrowers ...

If you took the total amount of wealth gained by the world’s billionaires over the last year and gave every person in the world $250, billionaires would still have $500 billion left over. Between 1989 ...

The share of total wealth held by the richest Americans is now at the highest level since World War II. The top 1% of households controlled 31.7% of the nation’s wealth in the third quarter of 2025, ...

Forbes' annual list of the richest Americans was released Tuesday, revealing which 400 people are the country's wealthiest, and it was a good year to be in technology. The list remains largely ...

In yet another sign of exploding inequality, a new data analysis finds that while affordability is an urgent issue for average Ohioans, the richest Americans keep getting richer. A lot richer. The ...