Plutocrats

Austen, Jane, 274–75

authoritarian regimes, 144–46

automobile industry, 280

Firestone in, 168

Treaty of Detroit in, 17, 18

Autor, David, 23–24, 27, 91, 148

Axelrod, David, 72

B

Back to Work (Clinton), x

Baker, James, 148

Balls, Edward, 214

Balsillie, Jim, 71

Bangalore, 46

banking industry, 119–22, 190, 218–19, 280

bailouts of, 218, 242, 258, 261, 280

Basel meeting and, 220

capital requirements in, 212–13, 216, 217, 253, 261

incomes in, 218–21, 259

regulation of, 212–18, 220–23, 253, 255, 259–61

Bank of America, 102, 214

Bank of Canada, 216, 252, 261

Baranowski, John, 30

Barbados, 149

Barclays, 122

Bartels, Larry, 270–71

Barton, Dominic, 60

Basel III rules, 253, 255, 261

Batali, Mario, 111–12

Batista, Eike, 54

Bauerlein, Mark, 267

Beane, Billy, 129

Bear Stearns, 258

Bedi, Kiran, 200–201

Bell, Brian, 81, 136

Beloussov, Serguei, 179–81

Benchmark Lunches, 141–44

Bendukidze, Kakha, 152, 163

Berezovsky, Boris, 150–51

Berle, Adolf, 132–34, 138

Berlin, Isaiah, 40

Bernanke, Ben, 258, 259

Bertrand, Marianne, 138–40

Bharat Light and Power, 158–59

Bharti Enterprises, 66

Bieber, Justin, 109

Bierstadt, Albert, 171

big data, 146, 165–66

Bilderberg Group, 68

Billington, Elizabeth, 94–100, 108, 109, 114

Bishop, Matthew, 71–72

Bismarck, Otto von, 141

Black, Leon, 110, 142

BlackRock, 5, 166

Blackstone, 1, 45, 60, 70, 111, 147

Blankfein, Lloyd, 121, 147, 249, 253, 254, 280

Blavatnik, Len, 62, 171

Bloomberg, Michael, 36, 69, 77, 211–14, 227, 244

Bloomberg L.P., 235

BNP Paribas, 141, 211

Boao Forum, 68

Bobergh, Otto Gustav, 113, 114

Bo Guagua, 209

Bohr, Niels, 124

Boies, David, 101–2, 105, 106

Bolsheviks, 14, 93, 145, 284

Bombay Chamber of Commerce and Industry, 188–89, 198, 201, 228

Bon Jovi, 109, 110

books, bestselling, 126

Booz Allen Hamilton, 112

Bo Xilai, 203, 209–10

Bo Yibo, 209

Brandeis, Louis, 277

Brazil, 3, 19, 35, 54, 149, 156–57, 194, 198

Brezhnev, Leonid, 89

BRICs, 3, 18–20, 21, 30

see also Brazil; China; India; Russia

Bridgestone, 168

Broad, Eli, 71, 72

Brown, Gordon, 214

Brown, Joshua, 84

Brown University, 284

Buffett, Warren, 3, 75, 79, 129–30, 143, 175, 282

Buiter, Willem, 256–57, 270, 271

Bundy, McGeorge, 263

Bunshaft, Gordon, 103–4

Burda, Hubert, 68

Bush, George H. W., 148

Bush, George W., 214, 260–61

Business Insider, 238

Busson, Arpad, 74

Butterfield, Stewart, 172

BYD, 32–33

Byers, Brook, 183