The word 'wealthiest' is correct and commonly used in written English.
It is an adjective that describes someone or something as having the most wealth or being the richest. Example: "Jeff Bezos, the founder and CEO of Amazon, is currently the wealthiest person in the world with a net worth of over $200 billion."
Under his long stewardship, Luxembourg became Europe's wealthiest country, one of the richest in the world in per capita terms, as well as a bastion of banking secrecy and a tax haven for multinationals keen to exploit the EU's single market while minimising their contributions to the European exchequer.
According to a recent Oxfam report, the five wealthiest families in the UK are richer than the poorest 20% of the entire population.
The wealthiest 10% of households in Britain own 44% of total household wealth, while the least wealthy half of households combined owned just 9%, according to the latest figures published by the Office for National Statistics ONSS).
By 1925 it was levied on every estate worth more than £100, or around £6,000 in today's terms, although on a sliding scale so that small estates paid little, rising to 40% on the very wealthiest.
And that means asking the wealthiest Americans to pay a little more in taxes.
Obama is expected to urge Congress to act, including passing a bill that would prevent Bush-era tax cuts from expiring for all but the wealthiest Americans.
"Today, the top one-tenth of 1% – that is the wealthiest 16,000 families – now own almost as much wealth as the bottom 90%," said Sanders.
If the deal goes ahead, the students' new landlords will be Mikhail Fridman, Russia's second wealthiest man, worth an estimated £9.3bn; German Khan, said by Forbes magazine to be worth about £6bn; and Alexei Kuzmichev, with a fortune of about £4.5bn.
The bill passed by the Senate, with 89 senators in favour and eight against, is a messy, short-term deal that raises taxes on the wealthiest but postpones for two months any consideration of spending cuts.
Barbed-wire fencing along the 102-mile route ensures that the Expressway keeps India's perennial maelstrom at bay, and the high tolls preserve the route for the wealthiest of drivers.
Yes, he has secured worthwhile tweaks for the very worst-off, but the big picture is that moderate earners will be stung to the tune of 9p in the pound on income tax, while the wealthiest graduates will be free to clear their debts rapidly.
