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Forbes names Barack Obama world's most powerful person
Los Angeles, November 12:U.S. President Barack Obama is the world’s most powerful person, at least according to Forbes magazine. On Wednesday, the magazine released its first ever list of “The World's Most Powerful People,” which included some of the world's most powerful personalities.
<strong>Los Angeles, November 12:</strong>U.S. President Barack Obama is the world’s most powerful person, at least according to Forbes magazine. On Wednesday, the magazine released its first ever list of “The World's Most Powerful People,” which included some of the world's most powerful personalities. To grab the top spot on the list, Obama beat out Chinese counterpart Hu Jintao, with whom he has to meet few days after in Beijing to discuss their economic ties and political potential
The first ever listing of the world's top people includes politicians, businessmen, religious figures, media heads and one drug trafficker who really run the world, according to Forbes.
There are 67 people on Forbes’ list of “The World’s Most Powerful People”, one for every 100 million people on the planet, the magazine says.
US leads the list
American President Barack Obama has topped the list, with Chinese President Hu Jintao and Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin rounding out the top three.
As stated on the magazine’s Web site, Obama tops the list for a number of reasons: as head-of-state over the world's sole superpower, he presides over the largest, most dynamic and most innovative economy in the world, is commander-in-chief of the richest and deadliest military, his political party has the majority in Congress and he was recently awarded the Nobel Peace Price, "apparently for general awesomeness."
To grab the top spot on the list, Obama beat out Chinese counterpart Hu Jintao, with whom he has to meet few days after in Beijing to discuss their economic ties and political potential.
“China has more people, more potential to be world-dominating than the United States does in the long run, but the United States still has the deadliest, largest military and is the world’s reserve currency
and has the largest economy,” Forbes managing editor Bruce Upbin said of Hu, who secured the runner-up position.
“I think Barack Obama still deserves to be No. 1. ... He was by a long shot.”
Vladimir Putin, the prime minister of Russia, earned the No. 3 ranking.
Forbes created the first ever ranking of world’s powerful candidates by assessing power using four criteria: the number of people one influences; one’s ability to project power beyond his sphere of influence; control of and access to finances’ and how actively one uses his power.
The top 10 bigwigs on Forbes’ “The World’s Most Powerful People” list
1. Barack Obama, President, U.S.
2. Hu Jintao, President, China
3. Vladimir Putin, Prime Minister, Russia
4. Ben Bernanke, Chairman, Federal Reserve
5. Sergey Brin and Larry Page, Founders, Google
6. Carlos Slim Helu, Chief Executive, Telmex, Mexico
7. Rupert Murdoch, Chairman, News Corp.
8. Michael Drake, Chief Executive, Wal-Mart Stores
9. Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz al Saud, King, Saudi Arabia
10. Bill Gates, Co-chairman, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Other notables in the list
The list includes Pope Benedict XVI at a respectable No. 11. Forbes describe Pope as the spiritual leader of more than a billion souls, or about one-sixth of the world's population.
Other notable persons who made the list include Warren Buffet (No. 14), the Clintons -- Hillary at 17 and Bill at 31, Osama bin Laden (No. 37), Dalai Lama (No. 39), Oprah Winfrey (No. 45), New York Times Executive Editor Bill Keller (No. 51).
Forbes also included Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman on the list at No. 41. The magazine notes Guzman’s profession as "drug trafficker."
http://www.themoneytimes.com/featur...a-worlds-most-powerful-person-id-1090725.html
Los Angeles, November 12:U.S. President Barack Obama is the world’s most powerful person, at least according to Forbes magazine. On Wednesday, the magazine released its first ever list of “The World's Most Powerful People,” which included some of the world's most powerful personalities.
<strong>Los Angeles, November 12:</strong>U.S. President Barack Obama is the world’s most powerful person, at least according to Forbes magazine. On Wednesday, the magazine released its first ever list of “The World's Most Powerful People,” which included some of the world's most powerful personalities. To grab the top spot on the list, Obama beat out Chinese counterpart Hu Jintao, with whom he has to meet few days after in Beijing to discuss their economic ties and political potential
The first ever listing of the world's top people includes politicians, businessmen, religious figures, media heads and one drug trafficker who really run the world, according to Forbes.
There are 67 people on Forbes’ list of “The World’s Most Powerful People”, one for every 100 million people on the planet, the magazine says.
US leads the list
American President Barack Obama has topped the list, with Chinese President Hu Jintao and Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin rounding out the top three.
As stated on the magazine’s Web site, Obama tops the list for a number of reasons: as head-of-state over the world's sole superpower, he presides over the largest, most dynamic and most innovative economy in the world, is commander-in-chief of the richest and deadliest military, his political party has the majority in Congress and he was recently awarded the Nobel Peace Price, "apparently for general awesomeness."
To grab the top spot on the list, Obama beat out Chinese counterpart Hu Jintao, with whom he has to meet few days after in Beijing to discuss their economic ties and political potential.
“China has more people, more potential to be world-dominating than the United States does in the long run, but the United States still has the deadliest, largest military and is the world’s reserve currency
and has the largest economy,” Forbes managing editor Bruce Upbin said of Hu, who secured the runner-up position.
“I think Barack Obama still deserves to be No. 1. ... He was by a long shot.”
Vladimir Putin, the prime minister of Russia, earned the No. 3 ranking.
Forbes created the first ever ranking of world’s powerful candidates by assessing power using four criteria: the number of people one influences; one’s ability to project power beyond his sphere of influence; control of and access to finances’ and how actively one uses his power.
The top 10 bigwigs on Forbes’ “The World’s Most Powerful People” list
1. Barack Obama, President, U.S.
2. Hu Jintao, President, China
3. Vladimir Putin, Prime Minister, Russia
4. Ben Bernanke, Chairman, Federal Reserve
5. Sergey Brin and Larry Page, Founders, Google
6. Carlos Slim Helu, Chief Executive, Telmex, Mexico
7. Rupert Murdoch, Chairman, News Corp.
8. Michael Drake, Chief Executive, Wal-Mart Stores
9. Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz al Saud, King, Saudi Arabia
10. Bill Gates, Co-chairman, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Other notables in the list
The list includes Pope Benedict XVI at a respectable No. 11. Forbes describe Pope as the spiritual leader of more than a billion souls, or about one-sixth of the world's population.
Other notable persons who made the list include Warren Buffet (No. 14), the Clintons -- Hillary at 17 and Bill at 31, Osama bin Laden (No. 37), Dalai Lama (No. 39), Oprah Winfrey (No. 45), New York Times Executive Editor Bill Keller (No. 51).
Forbes also included Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman on the list at No. 41. The magazine notes Guzman’s profession as "drug trafficker."
http://www.themoneytimes.com/featur...a-worlds-most-powerful-person-id-1090725.html
