5 Millions of millionaires comentada em 28/10/2019 18:48 Assuntos Gerais theus.stz em 28/10/19 10:29 comentada em 28/10/2019 18:48 Daily chart - Millions of millionaires | Graphic detail | The EconomistBEFORE BORIS JOHNSON was counting Brexit votes as Britain’s prime minister, he was boasting about another number as mayor of London. “We have now in London 72 billionaires, which is more than New York,” he said in an interview in 2014. “London is to the billionaire as the jungles of Sumatra are to the orangutan.” Although the city now claims some 95 billionaires, their millionaire cousins may be faring less well. In the past year, Britain lost 27,000 millionaires (measured in dollars) because of the weakening of the pound as a result of uncertainty over Brexit.Elsewhere their numbers are growing. There are now 46.8m dollar millionaires worldwide, according to this year’s “Global wealth report” by the Credit Suisse Research Institute, an increase of 1.1m from mid-2018. Their ranks include more than 4m Chinese, 3m Japanese and 2m Germans. Yet no country has deeper pockets than America, which claims nearly 19m millionaires (see chart), and accounts for more than half of this year’s increase. Despite market gyrations, trade wars on several fronts and fears of a recession, the country generated 675,000 new millionaires in the 12 months to mid-2019. To be fair, wealth is a confused topic. It has grown a lot because low interest rates have increased asset prices. Moreover, it is tied up in retirement savings as well as varying degrees of social insurance.
