Presented here are the World’s Largest Corporations, according to Fortune Magazine’s Global 500 annual rankings:

Rank	Company	Revenues ($ millions)	Profits ($ millions)
1	Royal Dutch Shell	458,361	26,277
2	Exxon Mobil	442,851	45,220
3	Wal-Mart Stores	405,607	13,400
4	BP	367,053	21,157
5	Chevron	263,159	23,931
6	Total	234,674	15,500
7	ConocoPhillips	230,764	-16,998
8	ING Group	226,577	-1,067
9	Sinopec	207,814	1,961
10	Toyota Motor	204,352	-4,349
11	Japan Post Holdings	198,700	4,208
12	General Electric	183,207	17,410
13	China National Petroleum	181,123	10,271
14	Volkswagen	166,579	6,957
15	State Grid	164,136	664
16	Dexia Group	161,269	-4,868
17	ENI	159,348	12,917
18	General Motors	148,979	-30,860
19	Ford Motor	146,277	-14,672
20	Allianz	142,395	-3,577
21	HSBC Holdings	142,049	5,728
22	Gazprom	141,455	29,864
23	Daimler	140,328	1,973
24	BNP Paribas	136,096	4,422
25	Carrefour	129,134	1,862
26	E.ON	127,278	1,853
27	PDVSA	126,364	7,451
28	ArcelorMittal	124,936	9,399
29	AT&T	124,028	12,867
30	Siemens	123,595	8,595
31	Pemex	119,235	-10,056
32	Hewlett-Packard	118,364	8,329
33	Valero Energy	118,298	-1,131
34	Petrobras	118,257	18,879
35	Banco Santander	117,803	12,992
36	Statoil Hydro	116,211	7,664
37	Bank of America Corp.	113,106	4,008
38	Royal Bank of Scotland	113,087	-43,167
39	Citigroup	112,372	-27,684
40	Samsung Electronics	110,350	5,027
41	Berkshire Hathaway	107,786	4,994
42	McKesson	106,632	823
43	Société Générale	104,378	2,942
44	Nippon Telegraph & Telephone	103,684	5,362
45	International Business Machines	103,630	12,334
46	Crédit Agricole	103,582	1,499
47	Assicurazioni Generali	103,103	1,260
48	Nestlé	101,565	16,670
49	J.P. Morgan Chase & Co.	101,491	5,605
50	Metro	101,217	590

Notice that 7 of the top 10 are energy or oil-related companies. What does that say about the future of our economy, and those of the oil and natural resource-rich countries like Chile, Brazil, China, and Russia?