(1.11.2012) The US has added 1.1 million new millionaires since Barack Obama was elected president in 2008, according to a new survey of high-net-worth individuals.

Amid an election campaign that has been defined by fierce fights over the taxation of millionaires and accusations that Obama is anti-wealth, the so-called „1%“ of the population grew by 29%, the equivalent of a thousand new millionaires per day, over the president‘s first three years in office.