Almost all of the wealth created since the financial crash of 2008 has gone to the richest one per cent. This has led to more, and wealthier, billionaires with very little benefit to the majority of citizens. Chuck Collins is director of the Program on Inequality and the Common Good at the Institute for Policy Studies. His recent op-ed piece, The US Would Be Better Off With Fewer Billionaires, appeared last month on the CNN Business website.