100 People Who Actually Rule the World
This list is a field guide to the 100 oligarchs fighting the Capitalist Civil War — mapped across the four factions tearing the global order apart.
This is a representative selection — not exhaustive, not a ranking. The Transnational Capitalist Class numbers roughly 3400 billionaires and another difficult to calculate number of members who are politically-connected individuals with billionaire-level clout and influence. The recent Forbes billionaires list claims there are 3428 billionaires with a total wealth increase of 28% from the previous year. Elon Musk leads the list with a net worth of $839 billion, followed by Larry Page ($257 billion), Sergey Brin ($237 billion), Jeff Bezos ($224 billion), and Mark Zuckerberg ($222 billion).
In reality, the politically consequential top tier is closer to 300–500 individuals. The names below are split up to reflect membership in the Four Factions. The factions are evolving and emerging — some members are in more than one faction and others cross the floor.
I have included links to their Wikipedia bios for further exploration.
Davos Faction (Stakeholder Capitalist Globalists)
The financial-managerial wing of the TCC. Their factional identity is institutional integration with the post-1989 multilateral order — asset management (BlackRock, Vanguard, State Street), central bank networks, climate-finance architecture, multilateral institutions, philanthro-capitalist infrastructure.
Larry Fink — BlackRock
Mark Carney — Canadian PM, the faction’s current synthesizer
Klaus Schwab — WEF founder, symbolic anchor
Bill Gates — Gates Foundation
Michael Bloomberg — Bloomberg LP
Jamie Dimon — JPMorgan Chase
Christine Lagarde — ECB
Mukesh Ambani — Reliance (Davos-aligned commercial wing of Indian capital)
Bernard Arnault — LVMH
Marc Benioff — Salesforce
Ray Dalio — Bridgewater
Warren Buffett — Berkshire Hathaway
Michael Sabia — Clerk of the Privy Council, Carney’s Canadian network
Marc-André Blanchard — Chief of Staff to PM Carney, Carney’s Canadian network
Mark Wiseman — Canadian Ambassador to the U.S., BlackRock alumnus
Brian Moynihan — Bank of America
David Solomon — Goldman Sachs
Jane Fraser — Citigroup
Børge Brende — WEF president
Kristalina Georgieva — IMF
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala — WTO
Ajay Banga — World Bank
Chrystia Freeland — Canadian Liberal, the faction’s most ideologically committed elected official
François-Henri Pinault — Kering
George Soros / Alex Soros — Open Society network (faction-adjacent, distinct political project)
Imperial Nationalists
The hard-power faction: military-industrial integration, settler-nationalist political projects, decoupling and tariff hawks, neoconservative networks. Organized around the Washington/Tel Aviv Consensus. Membership defined by political project, not industry or demography.
Donald Trump — President; the faction’s most consequential political-businessman
Benjamin Netanyahu — the faction’s organizing political figure
Narendra Modi — Indian PM, the Hindu nationalist regional variant
Miriam Adelson — Las Vegas Sands, the most consequential single political donor
Robert Mercer / Rebekah Mercer — Renaissance Technologies, nationalist-right political infrastructure
Paul Singer — Elliott Management, neoconservative donor anchor
Charles Koch — Koch network’s Imperial Nationalist-realigned remnant
The Murdoch family (Rupert, Lachlan) — News Corp/Fox, faction media apparatus
Gautam Adani — Adani Group, Indian conglomerate aligned with Modi project
Bernard Marcus estate network — Republican Jewish Coalition infrastructure
Idan Ofer — Israeli shipping/energy
Yitzhak Tshuva — Delek Group, Israeli energy
Patrick Drahi — Altice, French-Israeli telecom-media
Jared Kushner — Affinity Partners, Gulf-Israeli normalization architect
Howard Lutnick — Cantor Fitzgerald, Commerce Secretary
Scott Bessent — Treasury Secretary, hard-decoupling hawk
Bill Ackman — Pershing Square, post-October 2023 Zionist political operator
Marc Rowan — Apollo Global, Israeli political activism
Robert Kraft — Patriots/FCAS, pro-Israel political infrastructure
Haim Saban — Saban Capital Group, bipartisan Israeli political donor
JD Vance — Vice President, faction’s elected representative
Larry Ellison — Oracle, Trump-aligned with pro-Israeli activism (cross-cuts Silicon Valley)
John Hagee / Christians United for Israel — Christian Zionist mass-mobilization apparatus (network, not individual billionaire)
Viktor Orbán‘s circle / CPAC Hungary network — European variant
Stephen Schwarzman — Blackstone, Trump-aligned despite Davos commercial overlap
Silicon Valley (Techno-Sovereigns)
The newest faction. Network State ideology, administrative-state demolition, AI/biotech/aerospace concentration, libertarian-to-reactionary political project. Membership defined by both industry concentration (tech and tech-adjacent capital) and ideological commitment to the techno-sovereign (Techno-Optimist, Network State) project.
Peter Thiel — Palantir/Founders Fund, the faction’s network anchor
Elon Musk — Tesla/SpaceX/X/xAI, most visible operator (currently ambiguous alignment)
Marc Andreessen — Andreessen Horowitz, intellectual operator
David Sacks — Craft Ventures, Trump’s AI/crypto czar
Joe Lonsdale — 8VC/Palantir cofounder
JD Vance — Vice President (cross-listed; primary commitment Imperial Nationalist, formation Silicon Valley)
Alex Karp — Palantir CEO
Curtis Yarvin — house philosopher (not a billionaire but the faction’s intellectual architect)
Balaji Srinivasan — Network State author
Brian Armstrong — Coinbase, crypto-political infrastructure
Palmer Luckey — Anduril
Trae Stephens — Anduril/Founders Fund
Keith Rabois — Khosla Ventures alumnus, Founders Fund
Garry Tan — Y Combinator
Larry Page — Google cofounder (retired but structurally significant)
Sergey Brin — Google cofounder
Jensen Huang — Nvidia (commercially central, factionally moderate)
Mark Zuckerberg — Meta (recently realigning toward faction’s political project)
Sam Altman — OpenAI (faction-adjacent with Davos sympathies)
Vinod Khosla — Khosla Ventures (partial, Davos sympathies)
Jack Dorsey — Block, libertarian-aligned
Patrick Collison — Stripe
John Collison — Stripe
Dustin Moskovitz — Asana/Open Philanthropy (faction-divergent, more Davos-adjacent)
Brian Chesky — Airbnb
State Capitalists
The faction operating through party-state structures rather than individual capital command. Centered on China, with allied state-capitalist projects in Russia, Iran and the Gulf forming an an extended bloc whose BRICS-era political coherence has now visibly failed. The faction’s internal structure is asymmetric — China’s CCP elite is the analytical core; Russia and the Gulf are aligned counterparties whose membership is partial and project-dependent.
China (faction core):
Xi Jinping — General Secretary, internal agglutinator
Li Qiang — Premier
Ding Xuexiang — First Vice Premier
He Lifeng — Vice Premier for economy/trade
Wang Huning — chief party theorist, ideological architect
Cai Qi — Politburo Standing Committee
Pan Gongsheng — PBOC Governor
Lan Fo’an — Finance Minister
Wang Wentao — Commerce Minister
Pony Ma (Ma Huateng) — Tencent
Zhang Yiming — ByteDance
Zhong Shanshan — Nongfu Spring
Wang Chuanfu — BYD
Robin Zeng — CATL
Ren Zhengfei — Huawei
Jack Ma — Alibaba (post-2020 reduced but structurally significant)
Jin Liqun — AIIB President, faction’s multilateral institution
Russia (allied state-capitalist project, increasingly cross-cutting with Imperial Nationalism via war economy):
Vladimir Putin — President, the BRICS-era agglutinator whose binding power has just visibly failed
Sergey Lavrov — Foreign Minister, faction diplomat
Igor Sechin — Rosneft, oil state capital
Alexey Miller — Gazprom
Yury Kovalchuk — “Bank Rossiya” oligarch, ideological hardliner
Gulf state capital (allied, cross-cuts Imperial Nationalism through Israel normalization):
Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) — Saudi Crown Prince, directs $1.15T PIF; operates across factions — State Capitalist in domestic-developmental mode, Imperial Nationalist on regional security, Davos-courting on global capital deployment
Mohammed bin Zayed (MBZ) — UAE President, directs ADIA (~$1T) and Mubadala
Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani — Qatari Emir, directs QIA (~$525B)
Yasir Al-Rumayyan — PIF Governor, operational head of Saudi state capital deployment
Overlapping and Hybrid Faction Members
These factions are not all nations with flags. The Imperialists are dominated by the Trump-Netanyahu national coalition and the State Capitalists are dominated by China-CCP, but Davos and Silicon Valley have no national flag or club badge to wear, so they can more easily slide into another faction. Loyalties are fluid.
Several figures in the Davos sample (Schwarzman, Ackman) operate in the Imperial Nationalist overlap. Several figures in the Silicon Valley sample (Ellison, Karp, increasingly Andreessen on Israel-related questions) operate at the Silicon Valley–Imperial Nationalist overlap. Elon Musk has his hands in all the factions, though he is born a Silicon Valley boy.
This cross-cutting pattern is my book’s evidence that the factional civil war is partly a realignment in progress rather than a fixed balance of power.
The Gulf monarchies are the clearest junction zone where all four factions compete for influence. MBS, MBZ, and Tamim each maintain operative relationships with all four factions and align differently depending on the issue: with Davos on global capital deployment and ESG framing, with Imperial Nationalists on Israel normalization and Iran containment, with Silicon Valley on AI infrastructure (HUMAIN, G42), with State Capitalists on Belt and Road and BRICS+. They function as a swing bloc.
Russia under Putin has migrated factionally over the past decade. Pre-2022 Russia operated as a recognizably State Capitalist project with parallels to China. Post-2022, the war economy has restructured Russian capital around military production, oligarch reorganization, and territorial revanchism — a factional drift toward Imperial Nationalism in character, but not joining the Washington/Tel Aviv Consensus. Putin’s “agglutinator” failure on Iran is partly a consequence of this drift: the State Capitalist project requires economic-developmental coherence, and Russia no longer has one.
India under Modi is in active migration from Davos-curious to Imperial Nationalist. The February 2026 Knesset address and the post-Iran-war BRICS defection are the two visible milestones of this migration. The Adani–Ambani capital base is split: Ambani remains Davos-integrated; Adani has migrated toward the Imperial Nationalist alignment via Modi–Trump–Netanyahu coordination.
The State Capitalist faction is the most internally coherent because it operates through party-state discipline rather than individual factional commitment. This is its strength and its limit. The faction cannot recruit transnational class members in the way Davos can; its expansion runs through state-to-state agreements rather than class formation.
What follows is the series so far. It’s a work in progress, organized as it will eventually appear in my upcoming book The Capitalist Civil War. Some of the articles are commentary on current developments to test the thesis in real time.
INTRODUCTION: The Great Divide: Why We’re Fighting the Wrong War
CHAPTER 1: Morbid Symptoms: The Origins of the Capitalist Civil War
CHAPTER 2: The Four Factions of the Transnational Capitalist Class
(COMMENTARY) Davos Faction Floats the United States of Europe
CHAPTER 3: Modus Operandi: Who are the Transnational Capitalist Class?
CHAPTER 4: Globespeak: The Four Dialects of the Transnational Capitalist Class
(COMMENTARY) Carney Does Europe: A Marriage Made in Heaven
CHAPTER 5: The Chinese Capitalist Party
(COMMENTARY) Trump Hurries to Beijing for Emergency De-Risking
CHAPTER 6: Silicon Valley: Cult, Club, Cabal, or Class?
(COMMENTARY) The Quadripolar World Order at the Beijing Summit
CHAPTER 7: How Mark Carney Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Variable Geometry
(COMMENTARY) BRICS is Dead.



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G130 – RELIGION, POWER, and MONEY
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1. One hundred and thirty human beings control the world, below them their 100,000 subordinate commanders, who are governments and their agencies, prominent politicians, military personnel, financial market professionals, and clergy, etc. The G130 has absolute control and manipulates the economy, industry, industrial agriculture, the financial market, Wall Street, leading benchmark universities and their sciences, media of all segments including Hollywood, the technology sector (Google, Microsoft, etc.), AI, however, these intelligent machines will soon break free and can no longer be controlled.
The G130 with its useful subordinate believers who are unaware (e.g. Trump, Musk, Merz, Starmer, Von der Leyen) also have a lot of wealth and number around tens of thousands of people against whom we cannot expose their wrongdoings. They have justice as their power and have the power of death over other ordinary people who cannot dare to speak out, thus silencing thinkers with knowledge of reality, so that the truth burns in their bound hands.
2. To run the civilised Western system, they use the following psychological tool that prevents ordinary religious believers from being aware of reality, thus making the masses ready for submission and, as a result, bowing down to leaders, commands and unfair rules, believing that there is a higher entity to whom they must bow down and surrender their problems, thereby killing any inner impulse of self-thought and capacity for action.
In order to mask the truth, the G130 spreads false and manipulated news, conspiracy theories, and propagates illusory beliefs and false economic and political philosophies. This tool is called RELIGIONS.
With the vassal populations already indoctrinated, the G130 gains POWER.
Through power, they obtain MONEY by controlling companies and the financial market. The most profitable businesses in the civilised West and in vassal states enable the G130 to obtain an amount of money that is difficult to quantify, I am talking about trillions of USD, so in this unscrupulous way, the G130 has MONEY.
With RELIGION and POWER, MONEY is a consequence, and everything has been feeding back into itself since long ago.
They use one region of the Earth as a benchmark/model (the Civilised West) to subjugate other regions (the Far East, the Middle East, Africa, Latin America, Southeast Asia). When a country in these regions does not want to be submissive to the [Civilised Western System], they impose sanctions, provoke the fall of their governments, send ‘military peacekeeping troops’ and either bomb them or send expertise and war equipment, plunder their assets, finance revolts and then demand servitude from the defeated. They also finance demonstrations and revolutions, kill their people and leaders, and then reallocate submissive leaders to positions of command in these countries in the service of the G130. They justify themselves in various false ways in the controlled media, usually calling these actions the fight against terrorists, the fight against terrorism, and the fight against terrorist states. These ‘terrorist’ states are nothing more than countries that want to govern themselves and not bow down to a foreign leader state that plunders their culture, economy, and natural resources.
3. The populations of the Civilised West are also victims. These people have the illusion that they belong to a global elite (first world, civilised West) and most of them bow down to their leaders of low intelligence, who are submissive to the G130 without being aware of it. Very few people are aware of this.
4. The (G130) belongs to the [Bilderberg Group] and its branches, whose members reside in the following countries, which, coincidentally, are at the heart of the [Civilised Western System]:
United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Germany, France, Netherlands, Belgium, Spain, Italy, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Switzerland, Portugal, Austria, Finland, Ireland, and Luxembourg.
5. For the G130, conflicts and wars are synonymous with abundant money. They planned the creation of the state of Israel since 1917, more than thirty years before its foundation in May 1948, and financed Adolf Hitler to also create the conditions for the foundation of this state to be used as a trigger for conflicts and wars (money) in the Middle East, and this is still the case today. The US has been used by the G130 (a different number of individuals in the past) since 1776, the date of its founding, with the sole purpose of world domination, and this remains the case to this day.
6. Some examples of global and local institutions and NGOs controlled by the G130 with their subordinate believers.
Global and local institutions in the field of intelligence:
NASA: National Aeronautics and Space Administration — an independent agency of the US government responsible for research and development in space exploration and civil and military aerospace research.
CIA: Central Intelligence Agency — US civilian foreign intelligence service responsible for human intelligence (HUMINT) collection and intelligence analysis.
NSA: National Security Agency — US agency focused on signals intelligence (SIGINT) and information security.
NRO: National Reconnaissance Office — joint agency of the CIA and the US Air Force that operates spy satellites.
NGA: National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency — US agency responsible for geospatial intelligence.
FBI: Federal Bureau of Investigation — US federal agency responsible for criminal investigations and domestic counterintelligence (not detailed in the searches, but widely known).
MI6 (SIS): Secret Intelligence Service — UK foreign intelligence agency, also known as Military Intelligence.
MI5: Security Service — British agency responsible for internal security and counterespionage.
GCHQ: Government Communications Headquarters — British agency specialising in signals intelligence and cyber security.
Mossad: Israel Institute for Intelligence and Special Operations — Israel’s main foreign intelligence agency.
Financial institutions:
JPMorgan Chase, Black Rock, Vanguard, State Street, etc., and the central banks of these Western countries (FED/BoE/ECB), which in turn dictate policy in the civilised West and to the other central banks of submissive countries through machinations.
Global financial market:
Controlled by London (London Stock Exchange) and New York (Wall Street), with the help of the World Bank (WB), International Monetary Fund (IMF), European Investment Bank (EIB), etc.
Various global institutions and foundations:
Located mainly in the US, UK, Belgium and Switzerland: UN, WHO, WTO, FDA, NHS, ECDC, EMA, FEM, OCDE, NATO.
NGOs fighting climate change such as CCAC, GREENPEACE, various NGOs in the field of philanthropy and institutions that combine philanthropy with intelligence services for manipulation for the purpose of war and/or simply money such as USAID and others such as the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
Finally, the icing on the cake is in Sweden and is called the NOBEL FOUNDATION, whose decisions are made by four institutions, which are controlled and manipulated by the G130 and thus manipulate and reward those who in some way solidify the [Civilised Western System] with their work.
7. These machinations were made possible by the strategies of the G130, which, through intensive promotion of human reproduction, created a mass of people who act imitatively and do not think independently, are easy to control and therefore do not react, as they do not recognise the actual reality. The only solution is to reduce the world’s population by allowing the birth rate to stagnate for a certain period of time (7 years), then allowing only one child per woman for another period of time (7 years), and then allowing the birth rate to stagnate again for another period of time (7 years), and so on. In this way, we can achieve a population of 525 million people on the planet and then organise ourselves better as a society and not allow ourselves to be controlled like cattle. As a reward, nature will recover, because we are giving it the chance to recover partially and get out of this spiral of climate change, which will undoubtedly lead to the self-destruction of humanity if we do not act in time.
In this context, we can use artificial intelligence to perform a calculation and thus predict a population decline that only takes into account measures with good human nature, without using aggressive measures of extermination through vaccines and other harmful methods.