A leading NGO warned Monday of an emerging "aristocratic oligarchy" with massive political clout and primed to profit from Donald Trump's presidency, as global elites descend on Davos for their ...

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My friend didn't know that I had just finished the complete works of Oscar Wilde and I read a lot on what aristocracy meant. In The Importance of Being Earnest, the famous drama of Oscar Wilde ...

Billionaire wealth on the rise, says Oxfam, warning of 'aristocratic oligarchy' As global elites arrive in Davos for the annual World Economic Forum, the global advocacy group Oxfam reported that ...

As global elites arrive in Davos for the annual World Economic Forum, the global advocacy group Oxfam reported that billionaires' wealth increased three times faster in 2024 than the previous year, ...

Oxfam warned that global society is increasingly dominated by an “aristocratic oligarchy.” The charity reported that the wealth of the world’s billionaires grew from $13 trillion to $15 ...

Unlike most of the world’s tycoons, Aristotle Onassis was not born to aristocracy or into the realm of the ultra-rich. His father was wealthy, but the fortune the young man made was entirely on his ...

In Ancient Greece, “aristocracy” was simply a word that meant “the rule of the best.” These days, we’ve come to understand this “best” as a rule by elite, upper-class families who ...