Comments, Speculations and Opinion.

[ProHypster]

Last year's Forbes top 60 most powerful people going down from most powerful to least:

 

Barack Obama

Hu Jintao

Vladimir Putin

Ben S. Bernanke

Sergey Brin and Larry Page

Carlos Slim Helu

Rupert Murdoch

Michael T. Duke

Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz al Saud

William Gates III

Pope Benedict XVI

Silvio Berlusconi

Jeffrey R. Immelt

Warren Buffett

Angela Merkel

Laurence D. Fink

Hillary Clinton

Lloyd C. Blankfein

Li Changchun

Michael Bloomberg

Timothy Geithner

Rex W. Tillerson

Li Ka-shing

Kim Jong Il

Jean-Claude Trichet

Masaaki Shirakawa

Sheikh Ahmed bin Zayed al Nahyan

Akio Toyoda

Gordon Brown

James S. Dimon

Bill Clinton

William H. Gross

Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva

Lou Jiwei

Yukio Hatoyama

Manmohan Singh

Osama bin Laden

Syed Yousaf Raza Gilani

Tenzin Gyatso

Ali Hoseini-Khamenei

Joaquin Guzman

Igor Sechin

Dmitry Medvedev

Mukesh Ambani

Oprah Winfrey

Benjamin Netanyahu

Dominique Strauss-Kahn

Zhou Xiaochuan

John Roberts Jr.

Dawood Ibrahim Kaskar

William Keller

Bernard Arnault

Joseph S. Blatter

Wadah Khanfar

Lakshmi Mittal

Nicolas Sarkozy

Steve Jobs

Fujio Mitarai

Ratan Tata

Jacques Rogge

Li Rongrong

Blairo Maggi

Robert B. Zoellick

Antonio Guterres

Mark John Thompson

Klaus Schwab

Hugo Chavez

[BTGBullseye]

Why is my name not on that list, and why is the least powerful man in the world (Obama) in the #1 slot?

[Axeldeath]

They missed out #1 Gordon Freeman

[ProHypster]

I think Gordon was powerful enough to actually force them to not write him on the list.