These Are The Richest Families In America | Forbes
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- It’s been a good half-decade for the wealthiest families in America. Thanks to soaring markets, the 50 clans on Forbes’ latest ranking of America’s Richest Families are worth a collective $1.2 trillion-up about 30% from $916 billion in 2015. These families are all worth at least $7.3 billion, up from $6 billion five years ago, the last time we ranked that many.
The Waltons remain the richest. The descendants of Walmart founders Sam Walton (d. 1992) and Bud Walton (d. 1995) own about half of the retailing giant’s stock, which generates more than $700 million in dividend income for the family every year. They’re followed by the Kochs, who own 84% of Koch Industries, which does $115 billion in revenues from businesses that include pipelines, chemicals, Dixie cups and Stainmaster carpet. One of the few families whose fortunes fell since 2015: the Sacklers, owners of opioid producer Purdue Pharma-which has been sued by attorneys general in nearly every U.S. state for the company’s alleged role in the opioid crisis.
Other notable products produced by these ultra-rich families include: M&Ms and Pedigree pet food (Mars family) Jack Daniel’s whiskey (Brown family), Campbell’s Soup (Dorrance family) and Gap clothing (Fisher family). Both the Simplot and Reyes families are key food suppliers to McDonald’s. While the Du Ponts and Rockefellers are on the list, some of America’s most storied dynasties-like Astor, Vanderbilt and Ford-don’t make the cut, their fortunes having largely dissipated over multiple generations.
Those who have made their fortunes in the modern era, amassing enormous wealth in five decades or less include the Hughes family, who control self-storage giant Public Storage; the Cathys, owners of Chick-fil-A; and the Chaos, of Westlake Chemical, one of the country's largest producers of low-density polyethylene, used for milk cartons and other food packaging. The only Asian-Americans and nonwhites to make these ranks-just one sign of a racial wealth gap in the country-the Chaos trace their fortune in the U.S. to the 1980s, when T.T. Chao (d. 2008) moved his family from Taiwan to this country and founded Westlake Chemical.
Of course, just because these families are super rich doesn’t mean they’re happy. Six of the clans on this year’s list have gone through very bitter-and very public-family feuds, including legal battles over trust funds, sham adoptions and even murder accusations.
Here is Forbes’ definitive ranking of the richest families in America. Up/down is compared to their net worth in 2015.
(See the list for the full methodology.)
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The really wealthy families don't allow their wealth to be measured.
exactly... there are no doubt families worth trillions. literally 1 million dollars invested for 103 years at a 7% (conservative low number) average annual return would be over 1 billion, and there were of course families 400 years ago that were worth Billions already, so yeah... they just hide their wealth, they own the banks and they own countries.
thats stupid... Off shore banking gets exposed all the time (the would have leaked at somepoint), estate tax is a thing....also you cant hide 1 trillion dollars without some finding out about it at some point....money also dissipate through multiple familiy members and inflation. Also do these people live in normal houses? real estate deals are public record. So where are these trillionaires hideing?
@@Big-Government-Is-The-Problem Money invested in stocks and so on are public to the goverment/stock exchange so no they litterly cant hide it there.
@@gustavvigolo4480 there are investments other than stocks
@@gustavvigolo4480 lol you really think the rich pay the estate tax? give me a break dude... look into a Dynasty trust. you're naïve if you think the average billionaire is having that 1b taxed at 40% when they die. dont be an arrogant fuckboi and say something is stupid when in fact you make a stupid statement right after saying that...
Forbes is like “here are rich people” . That is all.
Isnt that their only job 💀
That's cause they don't really know that much about them and their wealth management strategies. Forbes was popular back when all people cared about was the list. Now the internet has all that information and more.
Can you interview these families and let us know their secrets to generational wealth? I think we'd appreciate that knowledge
Buy cheap, sell for a profit, dont spend more than you make, pay your employees as little as possible, pass on this knowledge to your kids, give them the money when you die.
Also buy every politician you can to make whatever illegal practices you do legal (but only for you)
👆🏾 what he said
@@jeffreymoffitt4070 also make sure ur children don't waste time loitering around
Deal in the basic needs of humans. 80% of people will spend money on 20% of things consistently , and basic needs are the top of those things. Buy out competition always.
Correction - These Are The Richest *Official* Families In America.
Unofficially...
Which are???
@Account99 So there's something called 'the Offshore Infrastructure'...
@@Xabier2020 Who knows - they mask the true extent of their wealth via the Offshore Infrastructure. It would be speculation to speak of specific names. Just know that the Forbes List isn't all it seems...
@@FinanceOptimum Thanks
@@Xabier2020 👍
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1:11 Coke Family
1:39 Mars
2:05 Shoen Family
2:10 Fisher
2:14 Gore-Tex
2:19 Taylor family
What?oh nevermind I scroll through the comment first before the vid,that was an edit and this also was an edit
When Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk etc are the top 5 richest people in the world im wondering if old money like Rockefeller and alike laugh in silence. I bet there are few trillionaires we have no idea at all...
The Rockefellers are no longer even in the top 10. After the breakup of Standard Oil, it went downhill. It is also impossible to hide trillions of assets, these are values in companies, real estate & Co. that cannot be hidden from the public in these dimensions. If there are trillionaires somewhere, then in monarchies and dictatorships like Saudi Arabia & Co.
@@huckleberryfinn6578 you live in a bubble. You have no idea what those families are capable of
@@huckleberryfinn6578 Allow people their fantasies. They need to believe in enormous conspiracies in order to make sense of the world. The true conspiracies of small government corruption and NSA mass surveillance are too boring for them, so they need to invent ones with cooler antagonists than your local sheriff or city council representative. Lol. People will never learn.
@@asherujudo7383 It's actually very easy to own assets anonymously via obscure holding companies based in the Caymans or Bermuda etc.
The Rothschilds are an example
Wealth inequality????? The waltons and other families earned it!!!! They didn’t steal a bank or hit lottery. Every single Walmart, Koch industry companies open every single day and gives jobs to. Millions of people. And allow to buy in a very good price for the ones that has less income. Talking about inequality is not fair. You should rephrase that.
I thought the same. It's not wealth inequality.
It will not be rephrased because it's literally the truth. Wealth inequality is not about who "earned it" but about making sure that *we the people* who helped them earn are not left to die in the street.
@@tuneteenthHelp?😂😂 More like entitlement, you make it sound like they owe "we the people" for their success. As if we just gave them money and we didn't get anything back, like we just worked for them without getting payed because we were "helping" them. Businesses make a lot of money because they provide value that "we the people" deem as worth the money.
It's simply a transaction, we give them money for the value they provide. We give them labour for the Money(salary) we receive, nothing more nothing less
@frankbertone1589 No, your envy is adorable. Come up with a more logical response
Walton family- 246billion
Jeffbezos-200billion
Jeff would have $247B had he not divorced.
@@jw2862 He'll get there soon enough regardless.
The richest families in America don't put themselves on lists...
what people don't understand is that although these families may be rich it's not a guarantee for prolonged success: One link can break the chains of a mighty dynasty. it is all up to the recipients of the inheritance on how they maintain the wealth they received it only takes one person to lose it.
Prince of Egypt quotes!
the wealth inequality is due to Fredo distribution. It's a natural law and could be observed in other domains of life too.
i think you mean the pareto distribution, and yes that applies to many things.
The Rothschilds and Rockefellers be like: thats cute
Final words were incredible wealth inequality. Amazon and Walmart have caused small businesses to cease to exist. True life experience. Businesses that provided higher quality goods and services for just as reasonable prices
They never mentioned the Rockefellers.
Conspiracy confirmed.
lol I think they have been donating a lot of their wealth over the years. that maybe why
or Rothschild family
Rothschild , morgens
Old money
Good for them.
cargill dupont where are they.
rockefeller be like
lol nice list
Their wealth went down longtime ago
I like to learn about rich families also not only about the individual billionaires.
Forbes u did it again
This is awesome absolutely wealthiest families in America to have a lot of money is very important and valuable beacuse money is very powerful tool to everyone and individuals thank you for bringing this profitable knowledgeable video really helpful highly recommended channel.
And then there's the house of saud with a combined wealth of $ 1 trillion.
Such a waste
And the sultan of Brunei family
Well some rich people pays to be on the list while some people to not be on the forbes list
@@yashikhankar sultan of brunei is around 20 bil he is not that rich.
When did house of Saud become an "American" family, oh no wait don't answer that.
You mean the Rothschild family, dimwit?
If you notice, some of these families companies are the biggest polluters.
all companies today pollute to a certain degree with that said in the US emissions are going substantially down
@@maximilliandirnfeld2442 per Oxfam (one of the most respected poverty charities/think tanks in the world) in September of this year, carbon emissions of the richest 1 percent of the world's population are more than double the amount emitted of the poorest half of humanity
www.oxfam.org/en/press-releases/carbon-emissions-richest-1-percent-more-double-emissions-poorest-half-humanity#:~:text=The%20richest%20one%20percent%20of,period%20of%20unprecedented%20emissions%20growth.
@@louisdzialo9990 of course that just means we need more incentive in green energy and carbon tax not that anything is wrong at all with being part of the 1% ur speaking to a 1%er
The secret is greed.
For the Walton family , that 700 million a year ... are we talkin that's split three ways ? And I thought they were getting billions a year .
I'm one of the poorest 🤣
Whoever thinks that we live in a Meritocracy is soo naive..
We live in a bourgeoisie Nopotism...
If you are born rich, will will stay rich!
1:00 $700 Million in annual dividends is WILD
Good hard work and the family , your friend hai.
Who's the name behind the brand?💭
I pray to God for the wellbeing and happiness for everyone in the Global World based on Love Light Peace and Justice
I still really don't understand "Wealth Inequality". I mean I do but I don't.
It means some people have more money than others. In itself it doesn't actually matter, but some would lead you to believe it is a sign of something bad. I don't know what, but they seem convinced it's evil. They would rather you stopped selling things when you've made a certain amount of money.
@@asherujudo7383 Exactly, like it's unfair someone worked hard and is now richer than the average person. Smh.
Rothschild?
And that's why I'm proud to be an American . It's the last free market economy in the world . Anyone can make it here . It's all about freedom here .
If you're born in America you are rich by default. You don't have to worry about the basic needs of a human. Not to mention the freedom to think and express. Imagine being born in a dictatorship or a war torn country. We should be grateful for our lives 🙏
Greed at the highest level. Gotta love it!
Cargill what about those guys
Alice killed someone and wasn't held accountable.
Honor to the Forbes.💕🤗
Nice video
WALMART.😉 I LOVE WALMART!👏💯💕
I bet you do
Wow even Forbes is talking about wealth inequality now. Times are a' changing
This should fill
Up your cup of the world WE the PEOPLE live IN why a nothing Changes🤪😩😫😖😖😛
At the end women talks about income equality the number of decades these families have put in their business people just don't realise you can't sideline it
Is walmart stock still a buy?? :D
Still down
What is the worst thing that can happen to a rich family... exactly to be poor !!!
So if we all pray that G'd will take the ground from under their feets; maybe they will know what it means NOT to make the ends meet.
Yall need to come to me im a Forbes..Im broke 😭
Please describe which families are Jewish and which families are not.
I was expecting to here “Rothschild Rockefeller or something 🤔
It's sad how many people in the comments who support this that will probably die before 60 from lack of proper healthcare.
Please make a video on poorest people in the world. Please
America preaches liberty and fairness yet has a lot to answer for in that regard. Ceo's and different company executives has enjoyed a significant increase in salaries payed to themselves for decades, yet the lower class see almost no increase in income and are bombarded with taxes up, right, center.
It's simply a matter of value. In a company a CEO is more valuable than the cashier working at Walmart.
Emotionally - it's not fair.
Rationally - It is.
God loves the family
Never realized how ridiculous the whole Forbes thing is basically
Here are rich ppl , nothing more ( taken from Marie comment)
My dear friends, I need your help. Long live the United States of Americ
Love this! Thank you for sharing.
How about we list the world nicest people in the world. If we did that we would shift into a better world.
stevewilldoit
Buh buy
Yup I’m poor
they can give 10 dollars each to all the people in the world and they will still be billionaires
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coke is an surname?
It’s Koch and it sounds like “coke”. they own Koch Industries and many many other ventures
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Mr Forbes, is Noticeable Once the Host Began Talking About the Inequalities in America, she Was Cut. ( She Was Saying, while the Mayority of Americans are Worried if They are going to Make It For Next Month's Rent, Some Individuals Came out Richer From this Pandemic. We all get to Live a Certain Amount of Time Mr Forbes, why Not do Everything Possible to Make This World a Better Habitat for Humanity
When 18 19 years old i had weird vision like eyes phony for my experience back then it was i become 13 funny one i think i got trolled back then.
Melon
These ppl are squat compared to who is really in charge. If you know their name...they are NOTHING 🖤
my grandfather is worth about 80.2million
Most evil families
This is awesome absolutely wealthiest families in America to have a lot of money is very important and valuable beacuse money is very powerful tool to everyone and individuals thank you for bringing this profitable knowledgeable video really helpful highly recommended channel.