The Few Banks that Own All
July 25, 2012
147 corporations, mostly banks, control 40% of the world's wealth.
by Anthony Migchels
(henrymakow.com)
In the Fall
of 2011, a study by Swiss scientists
revealed that a small number of banks controlled a decisive stake in the
globe's economy.
The idea that this banking cartel controls the economy is now a scientifically quantified matter of record.
The study, called 'the Network of Global Corporate Control' was done by Stefania Vitali, James B. Glattfelder, and Stefano Battiston, in Zurich, Switzerland. The method was datamining the Orbis Marketing Database 2007, with data on more than 30 million economic actors (companies and investors) worldwide, including asset positions.
The study was published in the New Scientist, a highly respected outlet of mainstream science.
The results were interesting, although basically predictable.
Massive centralization
It transpires that there are about 43,000 companies that are Transnational according to the OECD definition.
There is a top 1,318 of them that seem to be at the center of it all. This core group has three important characteristics.
1. Between them, they generated 20% of the world's income.
2. They own each other.
The Orbis database clearly showed that most shares of these corporations
were owned by other members of the group of 1,318. This means that the
biggest, most profitable and influential corporations in the world all
own each other and are basically one massive cartel, or even monopoly.
They are competing only nominally. Competition is sin.
3. The core owns all the other biggest 43,000 Transnational corporations.
These companies generate another 60% of the entire world's
income. So not only is the top of the business world on major cartel, it
controls or outright owns all of its lesser brethren, confirming the
idea of one incredible monopoly owning the entire world.
Besides these three issues with the core of 1,318, there are two more shocking observations:
4. 80% of the total control was in the hands of an even smaller group of 737 corporations.
5. And last but not least: at the very top, only 147 corporations directly control 40% of the total wealth.
Conclusion
See below the article for a list of the top 50 of this list.
As you can see from that list, they are all banks or other financial institutions.
So no, it's not a hyperbole to say the Banking System is One.
We're not overstating the case when we say it's just one massive
cartel. That the banks own everything, including all the major
industries. Oil, Weapons, Pharmaceuticals, Food, Telecom and IT, etc.
It's all one massive monopoly. Controlled from the top down.
The Money Power is real and these Swiss gentlemen have done us a favor by crunching the numbers.
Questions remain. How do the CAFR's of US Governmental pension funds and the like fit in this picture? How are the companies controlled if they all own each other?
However, the last few years we have seen conspiracy theory getting
validated more and more everyday. People are still surprised, but that
is only because they don't understand human nature. People conspire to do just
about everything. It would have been really surprising had there not
been a conspiracy to rule the world.
Related:
Understand the Banking System is One
Liebor, the Biggest Scam in History?
For this article I am indebted to David Wilcock.
Anthony Migchels is an Interest-Free Currency activist and founder of the Gelre, the first Regional Currency in the Netherlands. You can read all of his articles on his blog Real Currencies
TD said (July 26, 2012):
The study cited reinforces what most us students of the NWO generally already know. The author of the blog mentions that the business cartel Owns All, yet it generates just 20% of the world’s income. This figure must be much higher. I’d like to know what percent of the world’s net worth they own. That fact would be more revealing of the clout the oligarchs wield.
CAFR’s are mentioned but scarcely anyone knows what Comprehensive Annual Financial Reports are. In essence, they are a second set of books that cities, counties, states, etc. maintain but keep from public awareness. They consists of investments and the income derived from them--interest. In most instances, the interest dwarfs revenue received from taxes.
If the Pope, who claims authority over all temporal matters, doesn’t it follow that he owns what he controls? Indeed, he does. He owns you and me and nearly everything else with the complicity of governments. One way this is achieved is by the issuance of birth certificates (a relatively new ploy) and “certificates of title†rather than actual “titles.†Furthermore, isn’t it peculiar that the Vatican’s books are kept by the House of Rothchild? One can check this out in the Encyclopedia Judaica or watch this short video clip of the late, great Eustace Mullins being interviewed: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7DUgg3carw.