Η βούληση των αγορών να επιτύχει η σημαντική προσπάθεια τόσο της Ελλάδας, όσο και της Ισπανίας, αποτυπώνεται στο οικονομικό περιοδικό-βαρόμετρο για τις διεθνείς αγορές “WORTH”.- Δείτε παρακάτω ολόκληρη τη λίστα των 100 ισχυρότερων
Στο τεύχος Οκτωβρίου – Νοεμβρίου, ο πρωθυπουργός Αντώνης Σαμαράς βρίσκεται στην 13η θέση της λίστας των 100 πιο ισχυρών παραγόντων στην παγκόσμια οικονομία. Στην.. 12η θέση είναι ο ισπανός ομόλογός του Ραχόι, μετά από τους κ.κ. Ντράγκι, Μέρκελ, Ομπάμα και Λαγκάρντ.
Στο περιοδικό επισημαίνεται ότι ο Αντώνης Σαμαράς προσπαθεί να πετύχει χαλάρωση των όρων του προγράμματος διάσωσης της Ελλάδας.Μεγάλη διάκριση αν σκεφτεί κανείς πως ο Γουόρεν Μπάφετ βρίσκεται στην 19η θέση,ο Μπιλ Γκειτς στην 46η,ο Τζ.Σόρος στην 82η ενώ ο Μπ.Ομπάμα βρίσκεται μόλις 9 θέσεις ψηλότερα στην 4η θέση!
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01
Mario Draghi
President, European Central Bank
Draghi oversaw the ECB's $640 billion loaan package to European banks in December 2011, and the Long-Term Refinancing Operation loan...
02
Angela Merkel
Chancellor of Germany
Since Germany is the strongest economy in the eurozone and the logical leader in funding assistance programs to debt-laden banks and...
03
Ben Bernanke
Chairman, U.S. Federal Reserve
For most of this year Fed-watchers were anticipating more action from Bernanke to stimulate the economy, and in September, Bernanke...
04
Barack Obama
President of the United States
Obama has effected some landmark achievements in his first term: the passage of healthcare reform, the end of the war in Iraq, the...
05
Christine Lagarde
Managing Director, International Monetary Fund
As the eurozone crisis rages on, Lagarde has raised more than $430 billion in extra lending capacity.
06
François Hollande
President of France
Hollande hasn't exactly taken France by storm. His administration has been faulted for moving slowly on the economy, and his approval...
07
David Cameron
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Internally, Britain is facing banking scandals, media scandals and a deep recession, but it is the country's role in Europe's sovereign...
08
Gary Gensler
Chair, Commodity Futures Trading Commission
Thanks to Gensler, both Wall Street and Washington are taking the CFTC seriously these days. The regulatory agency is investigating...
09
John G. Roberts Jr.
Chief Justice of the United States
The Roberts court allowed unprecedented amounts of money into presidential politics with its Citizens United decision, which held that...
10
Paul Ryan
Congressman; republican Vice-Presidential Candidate
Ryan is best known for his much-debated budget plan, which may have assumed a larger role in the presidential campaign than have his...
11
Mervyn King
Governor, Bank of England
King's two five-year terms as the most powerful man in the British economy will end in June 2013, but Sir Mervyn isn't going out...
12
Mariano Rajoy
Prime Minister of Spain
With his country deep in the throes of its second recession in three years, Rajoy faces an unemployment rate of 24.6 percent—the...
13
Antonis Samaris
Prime Minister of Greece
Power Play: Samaras became prime minister in June after several attempts to form a government had failed. His government is attempting to convince German Chancellor Angela Merkel to loosen the terms of Greece's bailout loans. The future of Greek participation in the eurozone, and possible the single currency itself, hangs in the balance.
Path to Power: An MP since 1977, Samaras is the leader of the Conservative New Democracy party.
14
Shang Fulin
Chair, China Banking Regulatory Commission
As head of one of China's most powerful financial agencies, Shang must keep a watchful eye on the huge number of bank loans doled out...
15
Zhou Xiaochuan
Governor, People's Bank of China
Now in his 10th year as China's lead banking authority (he controls $3.2 trillion of China's money), Zhou lowered interest rates in...
16
Richard Cordray
Director, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
Cordray has lived up to his reputation as an aggressive regulator, which is one reason why his appointment—and the agency he heads��...
17
Mary L. Schapiro
Chair, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
Schapiro has waged a crackdown on finance this year, with enforcement actions and gag orders against financial exchanges, fraud charges...
18
Mitt Romney
Republican Candidate for President
Romney has so far declined to elaborate on the specifics of his economic plans, but he has made clear that as president he would retain...
19
Warren Buffett
Chair and CEO, Berkshire Hathaway
In August, Berkshire Hathaway ended its big bet on the municipal-bond market by terminating credit-default swaps insuring $8.25 billion...
20
Tim Cook
CEO, Apple
The pressure is on Tim Cook. After taking over for the legendary Jobs, he was paid a staggering $380 million in compensation in 2011....
21
Lloyd Blankfein
CEO and Chair, Goldman Sachs
2011 pounded Blankfein like a blocking sled, as Congress investigated Goldman's actions during the financial crisis and the firm posted...
22
Stefan Ingves
Governor, Sveriges Riksbank; Chairman, Basel Committee on Banking Supervision
After helping develop Basel III—which he describes as the financial system's "air bags"—Ingves is working on implementing the new...
23
Mohamed El-Erian
CEO and Co-CIO, PIMCO
Paid a reported $100 million in 2011, El-Erian is clearly the face of PIMCO and heir apparent to founder Bill Gross—though some...
24
Martin Gruenberg
Acting Chair, U.S. Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
If Mitt Romney wins in November, Gruenberg is out. In the meantime, Gruenberg has been pushing the Volcker Rule forward and developing...
25
William H. Gross
Founder, Managing Director and Co-CIO, PIMCO
A critic of the Fed's monetary easing policies, Gross recently warned that "the age of inflation is upon us" and has PIMCO buying TIPS...
26
John Boehner
Congressman; Speaker of the House of Representatives
In the first half of Obama's term, Boehner was largely eclipsed in his own caucus by Virginia rep. Eric Cantor, who channeled the...
27
Lou Jiwei
Chair and CEO, China Investment Corporation
Lou has increased the fund's AUM from $410 billion to $482 billion in 2011, but nonetheless posted a 4.3 percent loss on its global...
28
John Stumpf
Chair, President and CEO, Wells Fargo
Wells Fargo is one of the few banks that hasn't been stained with scandals this year, making Stumpf one of the few bank leaders who's...
29
Alexandre Tombini
Governor, Central Bank of Brazil
Tombini's policies, such as cutting interest rates and increasing consumer and business lending, have been propelling Brazil's economic...
30
Timothy Geithner
Secretary of the Treasury
It's been a tough year for Geithner: He's been hit with accusations that he knew of but failed to do anything about interest-rate...
31
Jiang Jianqing
Chair, Industrial and Commercial Bank of China
Jiang is a top contender to replace Zhou Xiaochuan as governor of the People's Bank of China when Zhou retires.
32
Jörg Asmussen
Executive Board Member, European Central Bank
In September, Asmussen ignored warnings from the German Bundesbank and supported the eurozone bond-rescue plan of Mario Draghi.
33
Preet Bharara
U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York
The prosecutor is working with the FBI to bring insider-trading charges in up to 120 new cases. But his work isn't limited to this ...
34
Jamie Dimon
Chair and CEO, JPMorgan Chase
Dimon led his bank largely unscathed through the financial crisis, but his halo imploded this year after reports of a JPMorgan trader...
35
Laurence D. Fink
Chair and CEO, BlackRock
In September, Fink announced price cuts on some ETF fees to better compete with similar products from Vanguard.
36
Eric Cantor
Congressman; Majority Leader of the House
As a leader of the Tea Party movement, Cantor gave critical support to Mitt Romney when he endorsed the presidential candidate just...
37
Janet Yellen
Vice Chair, Federal Reserve Board
A proponent of QE3, Yellen was the biggest in-house pressure on Ben Bernanke to make that move. Her name is high on the list to replace...
38
David Beers
Global Head of Sovereign Ratings and Managing Director, Standard & Poor's
Beers downgraded the U.S. government's AAA rating to AA+ in 2011 due to "political brinkmanship" and a failure to control the deficit��...
39
Jim Yong Kim
President, World Bank
Kim, the candidate of the United States, was criticized early as having insufficient experience for the job, and his early moves seem...
40
Robert Khuzami
Director, Division of Enforcement, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
Khuzami initiated a vast overhaul of his division in 2010, adding more investigators and specialized units to focus on hedge funds and...
41
Guido Mantega
Finance Minster, Brazil
In a coming-of-economic-age moment late last year, Mantega avoided rushing to the aid of ailing Europe, telling the eurozone to "save...
42
Boaz Weinstein
Founder and CIO, Saba Capital Management
Saba went long on the credit index that Bruno Iksil, the London Whale at JPMorgan, was shorting. When the index spiked, Iksil lost the...
43
James P. Gorman
Chair and CEO, Morgan Stanley
Gorman recently bested Citigroup's Vikram Pandit on a debate over the value of brokerage business Smith Barney; Morgan Stanley is...
44
Eric T. Schneiderman
Attorney General, New York State
In June, Schneiderman won a $410 million settlement against J. Ezra Merkin, a former Bernie Madoff associate—putting him in conflict...
45
Robert Benmosche
CEO, American International Group
AIG required a bailout during the financial crisis so punishing to its image that it renamed its insurance businesses. But this fall,...
46
Bill Gates
Philanthropist
Through his commitment to give away his money during his life and after his death, Gates continues to serve as a role model for the...
47
Max Baucus
Senator; Chair, Senate Committee on Finance
Baucus seems to have shrunk in stature with the passage of time, but he remains the Senate's most powerful player when it comes to...
48
Alan Krueger
Chair, President Barack Obama's Council of Economic Advisors
Seen as an innovative if sometimes contentious thinker, Krueger is charged with defending the president's record on economic recovery.
49
Brian Moynihan
CEO, Bank of America
Moynihan's tenure has been a long struggle. He presided over a nearly 61 percent decline in the bank's stock price in 2011, and made...
50
Spencer Bachus
Congressman; Chair, House Financial Services Committee
Following a November 2011 60 Minutes that reported on accusations of Bachus and insider trading, the Office of Congressional Ethics...
51
Jeffrey E. Gundlach
CEO and CIO, DoubleLine Capital
Gundlach's DoubleLine has outperformed both TCW's funds and those of bond bigwig Bill Gross at PIMCO.
52
Anshu Jain
Co-Chair, Deutsche Bank
While technically Jain shares the chairman title with Fitschen, many DB insiders regard him as the bank's true leader and expect him to...
53
Jürgen Fitschen
Co-Chair, Deutsche Bank
It has been a tough first few months for the new heads of Deutsche Bank—after DB was entangled in the Libor scandal and reported...
54
Carlo V. di Florio
Director, Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
Meet the new policeman of the previously unregulated hedge fund industry. After Dodd-Frank regulations for private equity firms and...
55
Benjamin M. Lawsky
Superintendent, New York Department of Financial Services
In early August, Lawsky announced that his office had been investigating British bank Standard Chartered for "willful and egregious...
56
Vikram Pandit
CEO, Citigroup
Fans say Pandit brought Citi back to profitability after a near-death experience; detractors say the bank remains a serial stumbler. At...
57
Cyrus Vance Jr.
New York County District Attorney, Manhattan
After receiving mixed reviews for his handling of the Dominique Strauss-Kahn rape allegation, Vance has settled into his job; he's...
58
Peter Thiel
Founder and President, Clarium Capital; Founder, the Founders Fund; Co-Founder, Mithril Capital Management
Facebook's first outside investor ($500,000 in 2004), Thiel sold some $640 million worth of Facebook shares during its IPO, then cashed...
59
Ana Patricia Botín
CEO, Santander U.K.
Botín is a daughter of Santander Group's chairman Emilio Botín, and her ascendance to her current role is a strong sign that she will...
60
David Einhorn
Co-Founder and President, Greenlight Capital
2012 has been an up and down year for Einhorn. In January the U.K. Financial Services Authority alleged that Einhorn and Greenlight had...
61
Brady W. Dougan
CEO, Credit Suisse Group
Credit Suisse suffered far less damage than other firms during the financial crisis, and Dougan's stewardship earned him plaudits. But...
62
Cliff Asness
Founding and Managing Principal, AQR Capital Management
Asness is a frequent critic of Dodd-Frank and other Obama administration regulatory initiatives, but he is equally scathing about his...
63
Sergio P. Ermotti
Group CEO, UBS
Like UBS chair Axel Weber, Ermotti is working to clean house and trim UBS's investment banking business bu making deeper cuts sooner...
64
Axel A. Weber
Chairman, UBS
Weber has to finish cleaning up the mess at UBS' private bank, pare back its investment bank and implement Basel III and other...
65
David Bonderman
Co-Founding and Managing General Partner, TPG Capital
Bonderman was among the first buyout barons to lower some fees during the financial crisis and let investors back out of funding...
66
Lael Brainard
U.S. Undersecretary of the Treasury for International Affairs
Brainard has worked quietly but forcefully behind the scenes in Europe this year, trying to make the case for bailouts to ease the...
67
Steven A. Cohen
Founder, Chairman and CEO, SAC Capital Advisors
The SEC has been digging for insider-trading dirt on Cohen for the past few years, implicating several SAC employees but never the head...
68
Gary Cohn
President and COO, Goldman Sachs
"Of course I would like to be CEO of Goldman Sachs," Cohn told Bloomberg in June, and before the financial crisis, when traders were...
69
Kenneth Griffin
Founder and CEO, Citadel
Citadel suffered punishing losses during the crisis, but recently hit its "high-water market"—the level of returns a fund must reach,...
70
High Frequency Traders
The vast influence of HFT on market behavior can be seen in the fallout from its screw-ups, notably the May 2010 "flash crash."...
71
H. Rodgin Cohen
Partner, Sullivan & Cromwell
While MF Global floundered last October, Cohen conferred with both Jon Corzine and CFTC chairman Gary Gensler. He is now representing...
72
Henry R. Kravis
Co-Founder, Co-Chair and Co-CEO, KKR & Co.
KKR has boosted its lending to European companies locked out of the loan market as troubled banks there have cut back on lending. In...
73
Stephen Schwarzman
Chair, CEO and Co-Founder, Blackstone Group
While Blackstone's private equity revenues were down 97 percent in Q2 2012, the firm is betting big on its latest global real estate...
74
Leon Black
Chair, CEO and Director, Apollo Global Management
Apollo's investors have had a stomach-churning ride since the company went public in March 2011; its stock fell from $18 to $8.85...
75
Ray Dalio
Founder, Bridgewater Associates
Backed by $115 million in state incentives, Dalio is building Bridgewater a $750 million headquarters in Stamford, Conn.—but...
76
David Rubenstein
Co-CEO, Co-Founder and Managing Director, The Carlyle Group
After an underwhelming IPO in may, TCG kicked off a buying spree, picking up Getty Images, TCW Group and Service King Collision Repair...
77
William Ackman
Founder and CEO, Pershing Square Capital Management
Ackman flexed his activist muscles in may when he won control of Canadian Pacific Railway, where he owns a 14 percent stake, by...
78
James Simons
Founder and Nonexecutive Chair, Renaissance Technologies
Simons has stepped back from day-to-day management of Renaissance, but the algorithmic trading techniques he pioneered have become an...
79
Eric Mindich
Founder and CEO, Eton Park Capital Management
Eton Park, one of the largest hedge fund startups ever, has begun to improve its performance after three lackluster years, and Mindich...
80
Charles Munger
Vice Chair, Berkshire Hathaway
A fierce advocate for investing in business, the 88-year-old Munger told CNBC in May that "gold is a great thing to sew into your...
81
Harvey Schwartz
CFO, Goldman Sachs (as of January 2013)
In September, Schwartz was tapped to replace on of Wall Street's most respected CFOs, David Viniar, when Viniar announced his...
82
George Soros
Chairman, Soros Fund Management
The billionaire still actively invests via his $25 billion SFO; in August, he nabbed an almost 8 percent stake in Manchester United,...
83
Mary Callahan Erdoes
CEO, JPMorgan Asset Management
The London Whale debacle has been a black eye for JPMorgan, but some see a silver lining in the actions of Erdoes' division, noting...
84
Ruth Porat
EVP and CFO, Morgan Stanley
Ina Drew's resignation as JPMorgan Chase's chief investment officer made Porat, who earned some $9 million in 2011, one of the few...
85
Irving H. Picard
Partner, BakerHostetler; Court-Appointed Trustee
Out of an estimated $17.3 billion in Madoff money, Picard has recovered about $9.1 billion. In September he began distributing about $2...
86
John Havens
President and COO, Citigroup; CEO, Citi's Institutional Clients Group
Havens hasn't had an easy year: Citi's architect, the formerly merger-mad Sandy Weill, declared that big banks like Citi should be...
87
Wesley Edens
Co-Founder, Principal and Co-Chair, Fortress Investment Group
Fortress' stock remains a bad joke, having fallen nearly 90 percent since its 2007 IPO. But its assets have resumed growing and it...
88
Hamilton "Tony" James
President and COO, Blackstone
Defying the pro-Romney trend among financiers, James hosted a fundraiser for President Obama at his Park Avenue pad and is said to be...
89
Seth Klarman
Founder, The Baupost Group
While much of the hedge fund world struggles, Klarman has managed to triple AUM since 2007. In the first half of this year, he focused...
90
Michael Bloomberg
Mayor of New York
Freed from the restraints of worrying about reelection and unlikely ever to run for president, the 70-year-old Bloomberg clearly feels...
91
Daniel Loeb
Founder, Third Point
Loeb took down Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson in May when he pointed out falsehoods on Thompson's resume. Thompson's resignation paved the...
92
Paul Krugman
Economist, Princeton University; Columnist and Blogger, the New York Times
In recent months Krugman has written devastating—and influential—columns on Mitt Romney, Paul Ryan and Chris Christie. His takedown...
93
Edward "Ned" Johnson
CEO and Chair, Fidelity Investments
Johnson was a major player in the mutual fund industry's recent—and successful—push to prevent new SEC regulations on money market...
94
Stuart Gulliver
Group Chief Executive, HSBC Holdings
HSBC is slogging through a grim 2012. The bank faces $700 million or more in fines from a money-laundering scheme, a $1.3 billion...
95
Michael Carpenter
CEO, Ally Financial
After Ally's mortgage subsidiary Residential Capital filed for bankruptcy in May, Carpenter began working to dissolve the lending...
96
Mike Mayo
Bank Analyst, CLSA
Mayo may be the banking industry's most influential analyst; he is almost certainly its most outspoken. In May, he downgraded JPMorgan...
97
Stephen Hester
Group Chief Executive, RBS Group
Four years into a five-year "clean-up" plan, Hester still faces a mess: RBS suffered the largest computer failure by a U.K. bank when...
98
John Griffin
Founder, Blue Ridge Capital
The famous stock-picker has gone form being one of Obama's first fans to a full-blown Romney supporter, donating hundreds of thousands...
99
Edward Lampert
CEO, ESL Investments
Lampert recently relocated ESL, which has about $10 billion in AUM, to Florida, probably to slash his tax bill.
100
Dan Doctoroff
CEO and President, Bloomberg
Following the Libor scandal, Doctoroff wrote a Wall Street Journal op-ed proposing "Blibor"—the Bloomberg interbank offered rate—as...
