Of the world's 100 largest economic entities, 51 are now corporations and 49 are countries.

http://www.corporations.org/system/top100.html

This was as of 2000. It's probably now 60 to 70 out of 100.

Remember that corporations exist for one reason — to maximize profits.

And they are eternal.

When they fully rule the world, I believe we will be able to say, in primitive evangelical fundamentalist speak, that ANTICHRIST is ruling. Or the New World Order, as GHW 'Poppy' Bush called it.