Jamie Dimon

Jamie Dimon, 68, has never run for—or even publicly considered—running for elected office. But the simple fact that so many people keep asking the JPMorgan Chase CEO whether he  has presidential ambitions is a testament to his power. With 309,000 employees at the banking giant, Dimon manages more people than live in Pittsburgh. And ­JPMorgan’s $239 billion in revenue on the 2024 Fortune 500 is larger than the GDP of many countries. Dimon has so much power that when First Republic was last year on the verge of bankruptcy, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen personally called and asked him to save the bank from failure. Dimon agreed, engineering an acquisition, and last quarter JPMorgan Chase reopened the first repurposed branch of First Republic, tasking it with providing white-glove service for the wealthy. Meanwhile Dimon has used his considerable megaphone to become a regular source of predictions and opinions about what’s happening in the economy, global politics, the national debt, and America’s character.