There are now 2,781 people with fortunes exceeding $1 billion which is roughly £800 million with Bernard Arnault, the majority owner of the luxury goods conglomerate LVMH, top of the Forbes list with $233bn followed by Elon Musk in second place with $195bn. It was therefore ironic that at the same time as I was reading this I was making my order for the new Taylor Swift album, The Tortured Poets Department, and discovered that shops would not be able to order the cassette version of the album as... Read this story
