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29 Cards in this Set
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Ben Bernanke
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Chairman of the Federal Reserve
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Michael Bloomberg
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mayor of new york city and founder and owner of bloomberg financial news and information media services
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Sir Richard Branson
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Owner of Virgin Atlantic Airlines
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Gordon Brown
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Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
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Warren Buffet
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CEO of Berkshire Hathaway; world’s second richest man; called the “Oracle of Omaha” or the “Sage of Omaha”
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Lawrence Ellison
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CEO of Oracle Corporation, a major software company
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Thomas L. Friedman
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N.Y. Times Journalist; author of The World Is Flat
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Bill Gates
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Chairman of Microsoft; world’s richest man (2009)
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Timothy Geithner
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U.S. Secretary of the Treasury
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Carlos Slim Helú
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Mexican businessman; telecommunications; world’s third richest man
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Carl Icahn
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American financier and corporate raider
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Hu Jintao
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President of China
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Wen Jiabao
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Prime minister of china
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Ron Kirk
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US trade representative. Recommends U.S. trade policy to the President; responsible for conducting trade negotiations at bilateral and multilateral levels, and coordinating trade policy within the government
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Pascal Lamy
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Director of WTO
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Ken Lewis
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Former president and chairman of Bank of America
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Dimetry Medvedev
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President of Russia
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Angela Merkel
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Chancellor of Germany
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Vladimir Putin
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Prime Minister of Russia
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Nicholas Sarkozy
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President of France
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Gary Locke
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Sec. of Commerce
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Jean-Claude Trichet
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French civil servant who is the current president of the European Central Bank
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Jim Walton
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Youngest son of Wal-Mart founder, Sam Walton, and chairman of Arvest Bank
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Amsterdam
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The capital and largest city in the Netherlands.
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Brussels
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The de facto capital of the European Union and largest urban area of Belgium. Contains the City of Brussels, the capital of Belgium
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Geneva
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The second most populous city in Switzerland, after Zurich. A world-wide center for diplomacy; headquarters for many international organizations, including the Red Cross
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London
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The capital of England and the United Kingdom. A major global city and one of the world’s largest financial centers
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Luxembourg
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The City of Luxembourg is the capital and largest city of the capital of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg. Luxembourg City is one of the wealthiest cities in the world, having developed into a banking and administrative centre. Luxembourg is a seat of several institutions of the European Union, including the European Court of Justice, the European Court of Auditors, and the European Investment Bank.
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Singapore
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The Republic of Singapore is an island city-state located at the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, Singapore is a microstate and the smallest nation in Southeast Asia. It is substantially larger than Monaco and Vatican City, the only other surviving sovereign city-states. Headquarters for APEC.
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