PURCHASING POWER

The ultrarich have serious coin. In fact, the planet’s 2,668 billionaires have enough money to buy up all the coins circulating in America—265 times over. Here are a few other ways the three-comma club could spend its collective $12.7 trillion.

Cash 127 billion $100 bills

They could hand every person on earth $1,000—and have enough left over to stuff 1.2 million suitcases full of Benjamins.

Oil 115 billion barrels of oil, 7% of the world’s reserves

They could refuel 62 million Gulfstream G800 jets before topping off every gas station in America 430 times over.

Gold 16 million 400-ounce bricks

That much glitter would fill 4,500 six-by-five-foot home safes from Utah-based Fort Knox Vaults, plus the real Fort Knox in Kentucky.

Moon Rock 83,000 pounds of moon rock

Or 100 times more rock than the six Apollo trips to the moon collected in total, which is still just 0.00000000000000005% of our neighbor’s mass.