10 January 2012

No conspiracy theory: An elite controls the world!

[Google translation of German article]

Bankers apparently actually dominate the world. What we suspected for a long time, researchers in Switzerland have finally confirmed: In a scientific study showed that a small elite controls the entire world economy. Well something like that!

Of the Freemasons of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), to the Bilderbergers: What are many bloggers, independent journalists, filmmakers and authors writing for several years, desperate fingers bled, was now by a recent study by the Swiss Institute of Technology in Zurich confirms. The fact that the demonstrators "Occupy" movement is described as 99% while not as obviously wrong: From a database containing the 2007, the data on 37 million companies and investors around the globe have, researchers at 43 000 transnational corporations and their share ownership focused. The analysis showed clearly that within this group of 1,318 companies linked so closely together that they make up about 60 percent of global sales.

Within this very elite group of companies, there is still an elite, a so-called "super-unit" of 147 companies, which controls around 40% of the entire network. "In fact, less than one percent of the company is able to control 40 percent of the entire network," said James Glattfelder, one of the researchers of the study, on which the New Scientist reported. Included are, of course, again the usual suspects. And & the Bank of America Corporation, Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Merrill Lynch & Co Inc and JP Morgan Chase Co are even in the top 25 within the "super unit".

The reality is so complex that one must get away from the call to such circumstances as a "conspiracy theory" as Glattfelder added. "Our analysis is the reality."

The study builds on earlier economic theories, which also was detected in that wealth is concentrated systematically on individual parts of the population. Thus, the Italian economist Vilfredo Pareto in 1906 had found that in Italy some 20 percent of the population controlled 80 percent of the country. This study became known as the Pareto principle. Pareto also found out that in spite of different conditions in the country, the distribution of wealth remains always the same. Conclusion: Natural resources, independent of human performance, tends to accumulate to put on some, rather than being evenly distributed. Politicians and parties have therefore only the function, you sell it to the stupid foot soldiers humanely.

The top 50 "Super Unit", disclosed in Alles Schall und Rauch blog:
  1. Barclays plc
  2. Capital Group Companies Inc
  3. FMR Corporation
  4. AXA
  5. State Street Corporation
  6. JP Morgan Chase & Co
  7. Legal & General Group plc
  8. Vanguard Group Inc
  9. UBS AG
  10. Merrill Lynch & Co Inc
  11. Wellington Management Co LLP
  12. Deutsche Bank AG
  13. Franklin Resources Inc
  14. Credit Suisse Group
  15. Walton Enterprises LLC
  16. Bank of New York Mellon Corp.
  17. Natixis
  18. Goldman Sachs Group Inc
  19. T Rowe Price Group Inc
  20. Legg Mason Inc
  21. Morgan Stanley
  22. Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc
  23. Northern Trust Corporation
  24. Société Générale
  25. Bank of America Corporation
  26. Lloyds TSB Group plc
  27. Invesco plc
  28. Allianz SE 
  29. TIAA
  30. Old Mutual Public Limited Company,
  31. Aviva plc
  32. Schroders plc
  33. Dodge & Cox
  34. Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc
  35. Sun Life Financial Inc
  36. Standard Life plc
  37. CNCE
  38. Nomura Holdings Inc
  39. The Depository Trust Company
  40. Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance
  41. ING Groep NV
  42. Brandes Investment Partners LP
  43. UniCredito Italiano SpA
  44. Deposit Insurance Corporation of Japan
  45. Vereniging Aegon
  46. BNP Paribas
  47. Affiliated Managers Group Inc
  48. Resona Holdings Inc
  49. Capital Group International Inc
  50. China Petrochemical Group Company


[see the original ETH paper in English]