SWITZERLAND CHINA 243 535 ITALY AUSTRALIA 170 183 State of Corporate pOWER 2012 Toyota Motor Exxon Mobil Wal-Mart Stores $ Royal Dutch Shell Barclays plc 60 USA Capital Group Companies 28 Japan 20 China Carlos Slim Helu Mexico telecom 15000 T 10000 op 25 global companies based ON revenues A FOssIL-FUELLED WORLD 5000 Wal-Mart Stores 3000 AUTO Toyota Motor retail Volkswagen Group 2000 General Motors Daimler 1000 Group 203 S AXA Ford Motor 168 422 136 REVENUES US$BILLION OR Royal C Group 131 OIL Dutch powerorporationsFUL THAN nationsMORE ING Shell 2010 GDP 41 OF THE World’S 100 L 129 EC ONOMIE Allianz Nation or Planet Earth Company 162 USA S ARE C China F Japan INANCIAL 149 A Germany ORP France ORatIONARS Corpor United Kingdom GE 143 Brazil st Mobil Exxon Italy Hathaway India Berkshire 369 Canada Russia Spain 136 Australia Bank of America Mexico 343 BP Korea Netherlands Turkey 134 Indonesia ate Switzerland BNP 297 Paribas Poland Oil and gas make Belgium up eight of the top Group Sweden 130 Sinopec Saudi Arabia ten largest global Taiwan REVENUES World US$BILLIONS 273 corporations. Wal-Mart Stores Norway Iran Royal Dutch Shell 240 China Austria Petro Argentina South Africa 190 Exxon Mobil Thailand Denmark 188 BP Chevron 176 131 127 134 150 125 Total Greece United Arab Emirates Venezuela Hewlett Colombia Packard other Samsung ENI Conoco Sinopec Group Electronics Phillips PetroChina E.ON Finland General Malaysia Electric Portugal State Grid Hong Kong SAR Singapore Toyota Motor http://www.minesandcommunities.org Egypt http://europeansforfinancialreform.org Israel http://www.carbonweb.orghttp://www.oilwatch.org Ireland http://www.tni.org Japan Post Holdings Resources: Nigeria Chile Philippines Chevron Czech Republic Total ConocoPhillips Pakistan Volkswagen AXA Group Romania Algeria Peru Fannie Mae General Electric Kazakhstan ING Group Glencore International New Zealand Ukraine Berkshire Hathaway General Motors Bank of America Samsung Electronics Kuwait ENI Hungary Daimler Ford Motor BNP Paribas Allianz Qatar Hewlett-Packard E.ON AT&T Nippon Telegraph & Telephone Carrefour Assicurazioni Generali Petrobras Gazprom J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. McKesson GDF Suez Citigroup Hitachi Verizon Communications Nestlé Crédit Agricole American International Group Honda Motor HSBC Holdings Siemens Nissan Motor Pemex Panasonic Banco Santander IBM We may have democracy, or we may have wealth Greece hands ofconcentrated a few, but wein the United Arab Emirates Venezuela Colombia Sinopec Group Louis D. Brandeis,cannot U.S. Supremehave Court, both. PetroChina Finland Malaysia Portugal State Grid Hong Kong SAR 90 Singapore 90 Toyota Motor Egypt 80 Israel Ireland 70 1916-1939 Japan Post Holdings Nigeria 60 Chile 50 Philippines 37 L Chevron OcatION OF TO 40 CORP Czech Republic Total 30 ConocoPhillips ORatIONS Pakistan 20 Volkswagen AXA Group 0 10 Romania P 200 Algeria 1983 Peru Fannie Mae General Electric Kazakhstan ING Group 60 $ Glencore International New Zealand USA Ukraine 1999 TOP 25 CORPORATIONS Berkshire Hathaway based ON ownership General Motors Bank of America 28 Samsung Electronics Kuwait 20 Japan ENI China Hungary 12.5 France Germany 30 W Daimler 2010 UK ORLD CAND CONTROL Ford Motor 4 Brazil BNP Paribas ritain Barclays plc Allianz NUMBER OFB C B Qatar Y BIG ONF TROLLED Hewlett-Packard GERMANY 34 Capital Group Companies E.ON 35 AT&T Nippon Telegraph & Telephone INANCE FMR Corporation Carrefour ORP FRANCE Assicurazioni Generali 61 AXA Petrobras ORATIONS IN T Gazprom CHINA State Street Corporation J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. 68 McKesson GDF Suez JAPAN JP Morgan Chase & Co Citigroup Hitachi O 133 Legal & General Group plc Verizon Communications P 500 IN 2010 Vanguard Group Nestlé USA Crédit Agricole American International Group UBS AG Honda Motor HSBC Holdings Merrill Lynch & Co Siemens Nissan Motor Wellington Mgmt Co Pemex Panasonic Banco Santander Deutsche Bank AG IBM F ranklin Resources Inc Less than Credit Suisse Group Walton Enterprises LLC controlmostly the banks,1% of Bank of New York Mellon of global businesses. 40% Natixis shares Goldman Sachs Group T Rowe Price Group Legg Mason Morgan Stanley Mitsubishi UF Northern Trust Société Générale J Financial Group There has been class warfare going on for the last 20 years, and my class has won. Warren Buffett, Chairman & CEO, Berkshire Hathaway What would The Global 0.001% $42.7 trillion pay FOR? World GDP 53 US-Iraq wars 250 years EXTREME wealth Climate adaptation 42.7 costs US$ trillion US space years 2247 programme WORLD years 190 investable assets Universal primary & POPULATION secondary education of US$1 million 7 billion or more thousand Gulfstream 0.1% 854 executive jets 10.9 of the population 15.4 UN Millenium goal million 1423 for clean water US$ trillion years investable assets of US$30 million or more Geography OF THE RICH NUMBER OF PEOPLE IN THOusaNDS WITH INVEstabLE 0.001% assEts OF US$1 MILLION OR MORE (2010) of the population 73 53 CANADA UK GERMANY INDIA percent percent 282 454 824 153 are men are from US, Japan and Germany JAPAN AN UNEQual world FRANCE 1,739 USA 395 3,104 PERCENT OF World’S SWITZERLAND INCOME IN 2007 CHINA 243 535 9.9 82.8 4.2 2.1 $ BRAZIL 1 155 ITALY AUSTRALIA 2 170 183 2.5 billion Top 20% of world Second Third Fourth Bottom people live population 20% 20% 20% 20% on less than $2 a day. Resources: http://www.tni.org http://www.ukuncut.org.uk http://www.equalitytrust.org.uk http://ifg.org/programs/plutonomy.html http://www.taxjustice.net http://www.tackletaxhavens.com http://inequality.org $74 CASE stuDY OF CARLOS SLIM In 2006, it was estimated that Mexicans contributed $1.50 per capita or $67 The world’s richest man, who doubled million total to Slim every day. His Carlos Slim Helu THE WORld’S his assets between 2008 and 2010, significant investments in oil and gas, Mexico is a classic example of a tiny global mining and infrastructure companies telecom elite, who have used monopolies, pollute the Mexican environment RICHEST MEN government corruption, and the through the emission of greenhouse support of the World Bank and IMF, to gases, the displacement of local privatise public resources and extract populations and the destruction of the vast wealth from ordinary people, often country’s biodiversity. in the global South. Slim protects his wealth by fighting off Behind every great In 1990, Carlos Slim bought the anti-monopoly suits with legal action, TELMEX, New York newly privatised national telephone making donations to all major Mexican Times, Philip Morris, fortune is a crime. company, Telmex, in a sweetheart political parties, through friendships Honoré de Balzac, French novelist (1799-1850) RAND Corp. deal - with his friend then President with politicians including current Carlos Salinas - that included a prior Mexican President Felipe Calderon price-rise on consumers, a monopoly and former President Bill Clinton, and of telecommunications for several more recently via his philanthropic years, and a $22 million loan from involvement in the health and $56 the World Bank. The deal made environmental sectors to “whitecoat” $50 telephone services in Mexico some of and “green-wash” the poor social the costliest in the world, and paved and environmental track record Bill Gates the way for Slim to take over other of many of his companies. monopolies. USA Warren Buffett software USA investments $41 $40 Microsoft. Gates Foundation: Bernard Arnault health, France Larry Ellison biotechnology. luxury goods USA Berkshire Hathaway software Lakshmi holdings include Louis Vuitton $31 Washington Moet Hennessy: wines Narayan $31 $30 Post, Wal-Mart, and spirits, clothing, ConocoPhillips, Mittal cosmetics, jewellery, daughter’s Johnson & Johnson, retailing Lakshmi Mittal Kraft Foods wedding Amancio Ortega Eike Batista India Oracle, Sun cost $60 Spain Brazil Microsystems, steel fashion oil, mining Salesforce.com, million. NetSuite, Quark EBX Group oil Biotechnology, Inditex (Zara, ArcelorMittal, Macarthur Coal. Board (OGX), mining (MMX, Pharmaceuticals. Massimo Dutti, Companhia Vale do member of Goldman Sachs Group, Stradivarius), real WORLD’S Top World Economic Forum International Rio Doce), ports, estate, gas, tourism, shipbuilding, logistics, Business Council. banks Billionaires tourism, entertainment. RANKED BY assEts IN US$ BILLIONS 1990 Share 18.3% United States Increase from 18 1990 to 2007 Tax evasion WHERE DO THE costs 145 countries 16 Top 1% in America RICHEST CONTROL 14.3% receives a higher United Kingdom share of total income MOST INCOME? more than US$3.1 14 Canada than any other 13.3% country in the OECD. trillion annually. top 100 billionaires the $ billions held by TOP 1% SHARE retail $ 283 11.1% Germany 12 reland I 10.5% Every $100 million recovered could fund full Switzerland 10.3% OF TOTAL INCOME taly ortugal I 9.8% P 9.5% immunisations for four million children or provide Japan 9.2% ustralia Spain 9% France 10 8.9% 8.9% A 8.8% Finland ew Zealand 8.6% water connections for 250,000 households. N 7.7% Belgium 7.4% orway Denmark 8 7.1% N Sweden 6.9% 5.7% $ 165 etherlands investments N 6 4 WHERE was THE MONEY MADE? SECTORS THat THE TOP 100 BILLIONAIRES’ weALTH CAME FROM 2 steel $ 145 $ 140 Hennes & Mauritz software Inherited L’Oreal (H&M) production Novolipetsk Steel, from father; $27 $27 outsourced to 800 Universal Cargo Logistics Bettencourt factories in Europe Holding B.V. (ports, $26 $26 and Nestle are and Asia. shipping, transportation). Mukesh Ambani the two largest metals & mining $ 122 Christy Walton shareholders. India Karl Albrecht petrochemicals, USA Li Ka-shing oil & gas retail Hong Kong Germany $25 diversified retail groceries Stefan Persson Sweden $24 $24 oil & gas $ 110 Reliance Industries Walmart, retail clothing Vladimir Lisin Liliane Bettencourt includes petrochemicals, First Solar. Russia France oil and gas, Hutchison Whampoa Ltd Aldi discount and Cheung Kong Holdings steel cosmetics biotechnology, textiles, supermarkets diversified $ 108 retail, special (ports, telecom, retail, property in Germany economic zone (SEZ) development, infrastructure, and the U.S.