During a year of economic hardship for many, some have in fact taken advantage of the pandemic and got even richer.
The world’s billionaires have grown their fortunes to a record high of $10.2 trillion during the pandemic.
Our economics correspondent Helia Ebrahimi has been looking at the reasons why the super-rich have come out on top and what this tells us about how our economy works.
Sources: CNN, Sky News, BBC, Fox News
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