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2016 Postmortem

demwing

(16,916 posts) Fri Oct 16, 2015, 09:10 PM Oct 2015

The 15 Most Billionaire-Dense Countries | Crosspost from PRG

Let's put a stake through the heart of the monster--right now. Bernie Sanders' Democratic Socialism is good for capitalism, and I've got the billionaires to prove it.

That is to say, Norway and Sweden have the billionaires to prove it.

Read:

There are 1826 billionaires in the world and there are some countries that have hundreds of them.

However, while nations like China may house some of the world's richest people, with 400 billionaires, it doesn't actually have the highest number of billionaires in proportion to the population.

Approved Index, a UK-based business-networking group, crunched the numbers from Forbes' 2015 billionaire list using this week's data and found that the most billionaire-dense nations across the world are pretty surprising.

So let me keep this simple, and cut to the "pretty suprising" part:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/127710163

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