number two for me jack ma. i met this guy 10 years ago in china and i thought he seemed goofy and delusional. alibaba, $4 billion a year in profit, used by a third of the chinese people. in september, he had the biggest ipo in the history of stock markets anywhere in the world a $25 billion ipo. that qualifies them as a winner. fully trade bake accounts with me? elizabeth warren is my next winner. she emerged this year as the one democrat with the power to set her parties agenda. she has made the issue of fealty to wall street something that no democrat -- smart enough to flirt with running for president and send the press hopping around like howling monkeys. >> i do not like the idea of you calling me a howling monkey. my third winner, there she is taylor swift. declaring that taylor swift is the music industry. her new album she did her first real pop record. it was the number one album. she had five songs in the top 100. the biggest first week sales in a very long time. she cut her hair and got apartment in

me saying a bad word. >> that's okay. >> okay. >> 26 77 billion, jack ma, just turned 50, 267 billion from 0.- not doubling something in a year that was already there. now, the tim cook, as a role model -- >> role model? >> terms of all that, in terms of the -- >> not as a ceo? >> as a pure business person, i got to go with jack ma. i do. sorry. coming up, i may reconsider buying a ultra high definition televisions now. find out why. that's one reason. later, time magazine -- >> where are you? >> nancy gibbs on the magazine's person of the year. persons, care giverings of the year. >> where were you in that picture? it is official, we gave the people what they wanted. the nation's strongest lte signal. this is a big deal! soak it in! just let it wash over you like a warm bath. with the easy-to-use suite of tradintrading tools...tures... at optionsxpress by charles schwab. and we'll give you a one hundred fifty dollar amazon.com gift card when you open an account. if you're looking for a trade idea, start at the idea hub... where options and futures opportunities are organized by volatility, e

that's why when we talked to jack ma, i asked and he makes point of saying, you have to trust me.hat's true, there is that larger issue there. again, everybody believes it will be the case. but the vie structure, which is not -- it's an important part of the revenue, not the bulk of it. nonetheless, is something akin to what may be cuban's referring to. >> i love cuban. he was on one of my "mad money" shows when we went to indiana. he's thought provoking. the s.e.c. has allowed a lot of junk to be approved, including some of the worst companies from china. you had nothing. i think the precedent that s.e.c. has set makes this one look a lot more understandable than a lot of the chinese junk they have allowed. makes it very hard to fight the listing. the s.e.c. has rubber stamped companies out of china for years. >> well, the reverse merger boom, which we reported on. greenberg did a very good job on that for a long time. it provided endless opportunity for hedge funds to short these stocks. it's sort of run its course. that was shameful. >> meantime, jack ma is not "time's" person