Billionaire wealth has more than doubled in the past 10 years, reaching 14 Trillion dollars
https://fortune.com/europe/2024/12/06/billionaires-wealth-doubled-14-trillion-ubs/MoneyBeing a NEET
2024 has been a good year for billionaires, they've gotten a lot richer.
Elon Musk is now worth over 400B$, most of this growth took place after Donald Trump won the presidency.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/phoebeliu/2024/12/11/elon-musk-now-worth-more-than-400-billion-worlds-richest-person/
Tesla Vehicle Deliveries Shrank 13% in the second quarter of 2025 — A Historic Decline As Elon Musk’s Troubles Mount
https://www.forbes.com/sites/dereksaul/2025/07/02/tesla-vehicle-deliveries-shrank-13-last-quarter---a-historic-decline-as-elon-musks-troubles-mount/
Bitcoin dropped back below $90,000 each on 1-December-2025. It has been trading above it since 27-November. Bitcoin was at its highest value of $126,270 each on 6-October-2025.
China's trade surplus has now reached 1 Trillion US Dollars for the first time. (Having a surplus means a country makes more money from exporting than importing; a deficit is the opposite, spending more money importing than money made exporting). This wasn't even a full year's trade but from January to the end of November 2025.
This comes after US President Trump imposed tariffs on products coming from China, this made it more expensive for Chinese sellers to sell goods to America. The sellers began trading more with other countries, the result has been increased surplus for China.