A Swiss study has shown the shocking control of our world by a few corrupt hands. I had read of this study in the past but recently had to go back and study it again. The implications are chilling but reading the PR spin was vaguely amusing.
The Study
In 2011 a trio of complex systems theorists at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich looked into the interlocking ownership of 43,060 transnational corporations. Although the topic of the consolidation of power will not be new to Steemians this data is some of the best I have seen to confirm that only a few hands are shaping our future for us without our consent!
The study which was published by PLoS One showed a tight core of 1318 companies with interlocking ownerships. Each of these core companies had connections to two or more other companies. On average the study showed they were connected to 20. These 1318 companies appeared to own through shareholding the majority of the world’s large blue chip and manufacturing firms. This represented 60% of global revenues!
Further analysis lead to the revelation of a "super-entity" of 147 companies which are deeply interconnected. The ownership of these 147 companies was owned by other companies within the "super-entity". This nexus of wealth was estimated to control 40% of the total wealth in the entire network!
This showed that less than 1% of the companies of the network were able to control 40% of the whole network. These companies are mostly financial institutions such as Barclays Bank, JPMorgan Chase and Goldman Sachs.
The 1318 transnational corporations that form the core of the economy. Superconnected companies are red, very connected companies are yellow. The size of the dot represents revenue. Source PLoS One
The Top 20 Of The 147 Superconnected Companies
These results were taken from a 2007 data set. Changes to this list have occurred in the last 11 years.
- Barclays plc
- Capital Group Companies Inc
- FMR Corporation
- AXA
- State Street Corporation
- JP Morgan Chase & Co
- Legal & General Group plc
- Vanguard Group Inc
- UBS AG
- Merrill Lynch & Co Inc
- Wellington Management Co LLP
- Deutsche Bank AG
- Franklin Resources Inc
- Credit Suisse Group
- Walton Enterprises LLC
- Bank of New York Mellon Corp
- Natixis
- Goldman Sachs Group Inc
- T Rowe Price Group Inc
- Legg Mason Inc
What is interesting looking at these companies is that the majority of them are financial institutions. This means that it is primarily the financial institutions which own all the other major companies that we purchase goods and services from.
How has this come to happen?
The answer is clear it is the owners of the central banks and commercial banks who are allowed to create money through fractional reserve banking which facilitates banks lending multiple times what they have in deposits.
Who Really Owns This Network Of Power?
The Swiss study did not address the interconnected personal relationships of the owners of this network. Much effort was given to spinning this study as a natural result of the open market. However we all know that is not the entire story!
Everybody knows there are some principle families on the planet who are vastly powerful. These include the royal families of Europe and the major banking families. To take this study to its logical conclusion it would be important to define just who owns the 1318 superconnected transnational corporations.
Given that these corporations own the majority of other corporations which own more than 60% of our economies it is important that we define this information. More to the point who owns these 147 companies which own each other and represent the majority of the wealth?
If what I believe is true and these core companies are owned by just a few globalist families it is very distressing. This is a clear sign that almost all facets of our lives from education to media, food to medicine, money to law are all used as lies against us. This is the only way that a few can control the many - through secrecy and ownership!
I don't think that the machinations of these elite families are to benefit myself and the people I love.
So what can we do about this?
- As nations we should demand transparency and stringent regulation of our financial systems. They should be set up for our benefit not the bankers.
- We should boycott corporations involved in this hidden control structure. By hitting their profits they will have to respond.
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