Is business bigger than politics? Chew on that

HERE is an urgent bulletin from the frightening facts department: big business really is taking over the world.

Researchers recently drew up some statistics as if countries and corporations were all the same thing: economic groupings of people.

They found that out of the top 100 economies in the world, 47 are corporations, not countries.

In other words, unelected business leaders are on the verge of acquiring more power on earth than our mostly elected political leaders.

The study was done by the Conference Board, a business research group based in New York.

General Motors is not only the world's largest company, it also is the 20th-largest economic unit on the planet, bigger than most of the world's 160-plus nations.