The cost of living crisis has made it a struggle for many to put food on the table at Christmas, but for US tech billionaires and Russian oligarchs alike, the festive period is all gravy. From Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg at the top of the tree to relative small fry such as Britain’s James Dyson and Jim Ratcliffe, Manchester United’s newest shareholder , the world’s wealthiest mostly got richer in 2023, figures show . Even a coterie of Russian oligarchs have managed to keep growing their fortunes, at least on paper, shrugging off the impact of economic sanctions imposed on them in multiple jurisdictions in response to the Kremlin…
