• 30 Apr 2009 at 10:23 AM

What Do Vikram Pandit, Jim Cramer, Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, Charlie Gasparino and Ken Lewis All Have In Common?

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Picture 1248.pngThey were robbed of a spot on Time’s 100 Most Influential list, after being teased with the prospect of such an honor, that’s what!* If you see any of these men today, stop and give them a hug– they’re gonna need it. Moving on. Among those who were inducted into the winner’s circle: T. Boone Pickens, Carlos Slim, Meredith Whitney, Suze Orman, Tim Geithner, Jamie Dimon, Sheila Bair, Paul Krugman, Nouriel Roubini, and Bernie Madoff. According to managing editor Rick Stengel, “The TIME 100 is not a list of the most powerful people in the world, it’s not a list of the smartest people in the world…they’re people…who are using their ideas, their visions, their actions to transform the world and have an effect on a multitude of people.” Indeed!
*Feel free to find more common threads among them.

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    Comments (24)

    1. 1
      Posted by guest | April 30, 2009 at 10:32 AM

      http://tinyurl.com/dldr7m Biden rides again.

    2. 2
      Posted by Debter | April 30, 2009 at 10:33 AM

      wasn’t this list hacked by the 4chan folks, who put moot at #1

    3. 3
      Posted by guest | April 30, 2009 at 10:35 AM

      ken lewis is having one bad week.

    4. 4
      Posted by guest | April 30, 2009 at 10:35 AM

      If they mean influencing people to want to kill themselves immediately if not sooner, than Madoff, Whitney, Slim and Roubini should be 1-4 in that order.

    5. 5
      Posted by guest | April 30, 2009 at 10:36 AM

      ken lewis needs another drink

    6. 6
      Posted by guest | April 30, 2009 at 10:37 AM

      @2 yes
      http://musicmachinery.com/2009/04/15/inside-the-precision-hack/

    7. 7
      Posted by guest | April 30, 2009 at 10:40 AM

      Also, all five of them are begging for you to toss their salads, bess.

    8. 8
      Posted by guest | April 30, 2009 at 10:41 AM

      Big deal. My name on the cover of Time every week. And the label still doesn’t reflect the true spelling of my address.

    9. 9
      Posted by guest | April 30, 2009 at 10:41 AM

      I dont understand the K lewis drinking thing. If i was him i would be bombed nonstop, hes only worth a couple of hundred mill, he doesnt give a half a crap what anyone thinks. Thats why its all f’ed up, because these guys dont really care. Worst case scenario you get pushed out. Im sure John Thain isnt shedding any tears right now

    10. 10
      Posted by guest | April 30, 2009 at 10:44 AM

      @2/@6 – yes, then Time fixed it. so, they hacked it again…
      http://musicmachinery.com/2009/04/27/moot-wins-time-inc-loses/

    11. 11
      Posted by guest | April 30, 2009 at 10:45 AM

      Meredith is a man? figures.

    12. 12
      Posted by guest | April 30, 2009 at 10:48 AM

      Why Meredith is on this list is beyond.

    13. 13
      Posted by guest | April 30, 2009 at 10:51 AM

      They all like the sound of their own voices, and the verbage of their own writing?

    14. 14
      Posted by guest | April 30, 2009 at 10:52 AM

      @9– “I dont understand the K lewis drinking thing. If i was him i would be bombed nonstop”
      you seem to be under the impression that DB casts cast judgment when it says KL is bombed all the time, when in reality they’re just stating a fact.

    15. 15
      Posted by guest | April 30, 2009 at 10:52 AM

      Another thing the 5 in the headline have in common…couldn’t get laid at one of Roubini’s loft parties as their minds aren’t that beautiful either.

    16. 16
      Posted by guest | April 30, 2009 at 11:01 AM

      What the hell has Krugman influenced other than some journalists and people without a background in economics?

    17. 17
      Posted by girl | April 30, 2009 at 11:03 AM

      Hugging Vikram Pandit is like recycling; you don’t just do it on Earth Day, you make it a daily priority.

    18. 18
      Posted by guest | April 30, 2009 at 11:05 AM

      @14, my point being is does anyone think he gives a single f***. I think not.
      Back in your cage

    19. 19
      Posted by guest | April 30, 2009 at 11:12 AM

      Durka durka. If I were a young Saudi those sunglasses would be enough to drive me into the arms of Al Qaeda.

    20. 20
      Posted by guest | April 30, 2009 at 11:14 AM

      @15 ftw.

    21. 21
      Posted by guest | April 30, 2009 at 11:56 AM

      They are all “people”

    22. 22
      Posted by guest | April 30, 2009 at 12:04 PM

      9 Where you’re wrong here is that having a couple hundred million makes you oblivious to being fired or not. After the first $50 mill or so the money doesn’t matter, the power does. So loosing your job in fact becomes the only important thing. Similar to politics – all about power, money is irrelevant. Seems counterintuitive to folks in the finance trenches who believe that money is what its all about.

    23. 23
      Posted by guest | April 30, 2009 at 2:03 PM

      @8 Brilliant mate

    24. 24
      Posted by guest | April 30, 2009 at 3:40 PM

      they all work for the taliban.
      tony almeida says so.

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