The richest households in the United States increased their assets last year by 1 trillion US dollar

The richest Americans have become much richer, much faster.

In 2024, the richest households in the United States experienced an unprecedented increase in their financial participations and gave their collective net worth about 1 trillion US dollar – a sum that exceeds the value of Switzerland's entire economy.

In the past 40 years, the proportion of the total US assets of the richest of 0.00001 percent of Americans – around 19 households – has increased from 0.1 percent in 1982 to 1.2 percent in 2023, according to Wall Street Journal.

In just one year – 2024 – the once slowly growing share rose to 1.8 percent or about 2.6 trillion dollars, which, according to Economist Gabriel Zucman, achieved the largest one -year climber.

At the end of 2024, according to Zucman, an economic professor at the University of California, Berkeley and the Paris School of Economics, the entire US budgetary assets were around 148 trillion dollars.

Since prosperity has grown for everyone since 1990, the Ultra-Richs saw how their wealth grew much faster than any other, said Zucman.

“You see this gradual increase and lately dramatic acceleration in the rise of the proportion of assets that is really super -rich,” Zucman told the WSJ.

According to the asset manager, the stock exchange experienced an enormous boom in 2024, which helped the richest people to be even richer by building them on the profits they had achieved the year before.

'The super -rich savings no money – they own assets that benefit from inflation. They own companies, real estate, tech platforms and stocks (stocks) in assets that grow towards “Grant Cardone, an American businessman and bestselling author of the New York Times, to The Dailymail.com.

'When the assets rise, their prosperity explodes. When governments print money, their assets grow.

“And they focus very much on their investments, which are not diversified, how Main Street America was indoctrinated.”

According to the WSJ, the two booming years were in particular the best successive years for the S&P 500 in the last quarter of a century in the last quarter of a century.

But even with such a good -looking winning of year for the year there is a risk.

After President Donald Trump had triggered a global trade war, the markets recorded a strong decline and revealed how quickly the wealth of the super -rich can fluctuate.

Since a large part of The Uber-Wealthy's money is usually invested in shares, your net assets can change by billions of dollars on a single day, depending on the status of the market.

According to Zucman's Research, people at the top – the 0.00001 percent – are a value of at least 45 billion US dollars.

The exclusive group includes top -class numbers such as Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, Warren Buffett and Stephen Schwarzman.

Some researchers even refer to them as “super billionaires”.

If the wealth of the rich continues to grow, more people become billionaires, especially in the United States. JPmorgan Chase said that the United States had around 2,000 billionaires last year, from 1,400 in 2021.

During another group, Altrata, 1,050 billion years with a combined assets of almost 5 trillion dollars counted in 2023.

'The rich games in a system designed by capital – and the middle class still plays defense with outdated rules. The game has changed. It is time for the rest of America to catch up, ”said Cardone.

In 2023, according to the world, the richest percent of the people in the United States had around 35 percent of the country's assets in the United States.

For comparison: In other countries, the upper percent kept much fewer stocks such as Great Britain, where the top partners were 21 percent, the upper percent 27.2 percent in France and 27.6 percent in Germany, the WSJ reported.

Since 1990 people who have already been rich have become even richer and have gained prosperity faster than everyone else.

While the upper percent increased its share in the nation's prosperity, the rest of the population has shrunk its share.

“You will see that the wealth gap will continue to be faster in the next decade, since the system rewards people, do the big bets on a few things, not those who just work hard to make money and then try to save them,” added Cardone.

Within this top percent, the super rich – called 0.1 percent – have even better. This group, around 133,000 households, each with at least 46 million US dollars worth at least 46 million US dollars, has won an average of 3.4 million US dollars a year since 1990.

The rest of the top 1 percent, around 1.2 million households worth at least 11 million US dollars, recorded an average of 450,000 US dollars a year, as shown by an analysis of the Federal Reserve data from Steven Fazzari, an economist at Washington University in St. Louis.