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The top 50 of the 147 superconnected companies
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 Compan
As protests against financial power sweep the world this week, science may have confirmed the protesters’ worst fears. An analysis (pdf) of the relationships between 43,000 transnational corporations has identified a relatively small group of companies, mainly banks, with disproportionate power over the global economy.
The study’s assumptions have attracted some criticism, but complex systems analysts contacted by New Scientist say it is a unique effort to untangle control in the global economy. Pushing the analysis further, they say, could help to identify ways of making global capitalism more stable.
The idea that a few bankers control a large chunk of the global economy might not seem like news to New York’s Occupy Wall Street movement and protesters elsewhere. But the study, by a trio of complex systems theorists at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, is the first to go beyond ideology to empirically identify such a network of power. It combines the mathematics long used to model natural systems with comprehensive corporate data to map ownership among the world’s transnational corporations (TNCs).
"Reality is so complex, we must move away from dogma, whether it’s conspiracy theories or free-market," says James Glattfelder. "Our analysis is reality-based."
Originally posted by jim3981
reply to post by xuenchen
George? Merck started Fort Detrick along with Henry Kissinger. Home of certain types of cancer causing viruses, Aids, and who knows what else...
Can't find my link on Fort Detrick at the moment.
INterested in hearing what you have to say about how this whole conspiracy works....Still new to this gig.
Not sure I can see how a bunch of mutual funds can run a company wtihout being on the board though. You suggesting the major shareholder companies give direction? Not getting your point.
edit on 17-4-2012 by jim3981 because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by BIHOTZ
once again with the "kapow!" posts. Nice.
You are conspira-licious.
Originally posted by AgentX09
This country wasnt founded for the banking theives.The forefathers sure as hell would have taken care of them.
The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." -- Thomas Jefferson
Originally posted by AgentX09
This country wasnt founded for the banking theives.The forefathers sure as hell would have taken care of them.
Originally posted by xuenchen
Originally posted by jim3981
reply to post by xuenchen
George? Merck started Fort Detrick along with Henry Kissinger. Home of certain types of cancer causing viruses, Aids, and who knows what else...
Can't find my link on Fort Detrick at the moment.
INterested in hearing what you have to say about how this whole conspiracy works....Still new to this gig.
Not sure I can see how a bunch of mutual funds can run a company wtihout being on the board though. You suggesting the major shareholder companies give direction? Not getting your point.
edit on 17-4-2012 by jim3981 because: (no reason given)
The "Board" members are "advised" by the major holders who have full staffs of people who monitor all business dealings.
That's why we see so many big companies following the same policies.
Why do you think many personnel policies are similar.
Companies like State Street have 1000's of employees who make up the advisory and steering committees.
They have the best MBA and PhD talent money can buy.
They operate behind the scenes. The companies pay "fees" for the "advice".
That's one way the big guys suck money from the companies they own.
(plus that, they own all the assets and property)
AND, have all the power.
Don't be fooled into thinking all that money invested is just there for small income purposes.
The small timers like IRA's 401k's etc are the ones at risk.
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