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Forbes has been putting together a list for the last 5 years of the world's most powerful people. They include one person for every 100 million people (72 total) and use a number of metrics in making their decision. The generally include more business leaders then other similar publications. This year the list included 5 political leaders, 3 business leaders, 1 religious leader, and 1 financial leader. Here are the top 10 in order:

1.) Valdimir Putin
2.) Barack Obama
3.) Xi Jinping
4.) Pope Francis
5.) Angela Merkel
6.) Janet Yellen
7.) Bill Gates
8.) Mario Draghi
9.) Sergey Brin & Larry Page
10.) David Cameron

Do you agree with their rankings? If not why, who would you put their instead?

Do you think there is a trend toward business leaders becoming more powerful at the expense of political leaders? If so, what short and long term effects do you think this will have on politics around the world?

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Forbes has been putting together a list for the last 5 years of the world's most powerful people. They include one person for every 100 million people (72 total) and use a number of metrics in making their decision. The generally include more business leaders then other similar publications. This year the list included 5 political leaders, 2-3 business leaders, 2 financial leaders, and 1 religious leader. Here are the top 10 in order:

1.) Valdimir Putin
2.) Barack Obama
3.) Xi Jinping
4.) Pope Francis
5.) Angela Merkel
6.) Janet Yellen
7.) Bill Gates
8.) Mario Draghi
9.) Sergey Brin & Larry Page
10.) David Cameron

Do you agree with their rankings? If not why, who would you put their instead?

Do you think there is a trend toward business leaders becoming more powerful at the expense of political leaders? If so, what short and long term effects do you think this will have on politics around the world?