The article says "The real question, says the Zurich team, is whether it can exert concerted political power." The answer is yes. It exerts concerted political influence through The Council on Foreign Relations, Chatham House (RIIA), The Trilateral Commission, the Bilderberg Organization. These groups control the political administrations throughout the world and the corporations mentioned in the article are Corporate Members of these organizations - CFR corporate members http://tinyurl.com/kjqq4e Chatham House Corporate members http://tinyurl.com/5rn5h4a
These articles show how the Council on Foreign Relations exert concerted political power in the United States of America : http://www.bilderberg.org/roundtable/SPEciaL.html http://www.rense.com/political/trilat.htm http://www.scribd.com/doc/35171112/2010-Bilderberg-CFR-Trilateral-Commission-Chart Chatham House(RIIA) exerts concerted political power in the same way. On Oct 22, 9:03 am, Tony Gosling <t...@cultureshop.org.uk> wrote: > It’s not a conspiracy! Elite controls global > economyhttp://rt.com/news/global-elite-economy-conspiracy-427/ > Published: 22 October, 2011, 09:29 > A man dressed as an "evil banker" stands outside > Saint Paul's Cathedral in central London as > protestors gather on October 15, 2011 (AFP Photo / Leon Neal) > Bankers really do control the world! That’s > according to Swiss researchers who, in an > exhaustive scientific study, mapped out a > blueprint showing the real architects of global economic power. > From freemasons to the Council on Foreign > Relations to Bilderberg, the belief that > secretive groups control the world’s economic and > political system are quite possibly as old as human civilization itself. > But while Occupy Wall Street protestors may be > slightly exaggerating in calling themselves the > 99 per cent, a recent study conducted by the > Swiss Institute of Technology in Zurich shows > that they aren’t too far off the mark. Drawing > from a 2007 Orbis database, which lists 37 > million companies and investors spanning the > globe, the researchers focused on 43,000 > transnational corporations and the share > ownership which connected them. Based on their > analysis, the Swiss team found that a core of > companies, the majority of which are in the > banking sector, yield excessive power over the > global economy, the weekly New Scientist magazine reports. > Within this group, 1,318 companies with > intertwined ownership structures were on average > connected to 20 other companies. > Representing some 20 per cent of global operating > revenues, the study also shows this group of > 1,318 controls the bulk of the largest blue chip > and manufacturing firms. In terms of the real > economy – the part which produces actual goods > and services – they take in some 60 per cent of global revenues. > The team was further able to break down this > group into what they described as a > “super-entity” of 147 companies that controls > some 40 per cent of the network’s wealth. > "In effect, less than one per cent of the > companies were able to control 40 per cent of the > entire network," says James Glattfelder, one of > the researchers behind the study, as cited by the New Scientist. > And when it comes to the top 50 groups within the > super-entity, more than a few would be familiar > to those who have been camping out in downtown Manhattan over the last month. > Bank of America Corporation, Morgan Stanley, > Goldman Sachs Group Inc, Merrill Lynch & Co Inc, > and JP Morgan Chase & Co were included among the top 25. > Quick to dismiss criticism that they are merely > concocting another conspiracy theory, Glattfelder > insists that their research is evidence-based. > "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, "he said, as cited by the weekly. > Money makes money > The most recent study of the Swiss researchers > builds on past economic theories which also > recognized such systemic concentrations of wealth. > In 1906, an Economist named Vilfredo Pareto > discovered that around 20 per cent of the > population in his native Italy controlled around > 80 per cent of the land. This observation has > come to be known as Pareto's Principle. > Pareto also found that while individual ratios of > wealth and control might vary from country to > country, the actual distribution is always the > same. That is to say, natural wealth, regardless > of human effort, tends to accumulate rather than > spread around. That accumulation leads to wealth > condensation, a theory more commonly understood > as the idea that money makes money. And if less > than one per cent of the surveyed companies > control 40 per cent of the network, it appears > that a slim few have managed to concentrate an > astronomical level of wealth into their few hands. > For the researchers, however, the issue of wealth > concentration is less important than how deeply the network is integrated. > As the 2008 financial crisis has shown, when a > relatively small group yields tremendous power > over the global economy, their mistakes will ripple across the world. > Ultimately, those invested in studying the > network which controls the bigger part of our > world economy hope that through greater > understanding, they will be able to make the financial system more stable. > For example, Yaneer Bar-Yam, head of the New > England Complex Systems Institute, has suggested > taxing firms if their interconnectivity becomes > excessive in order to discourage risk, the New > Scientists reports. Others have proposed global > anti-trust laws to help regulate the level of connectivity. > One question not answered by the study is just > how much political power the financial elite are > able to wield. John Driffill, a macroeconomics > expert at the University of London, told the New > Scientist that the interests of 147 companies > would most likely be too diverse to sustain collusion. > But while the capitalist network which controls > our economy might not be an active conspiracy, > they will inevitably have some interests that > correspond. The desire to fight any attempts to > regulate the network most likely remains a point they can all agree on. > > Revealed – the capitalist network that runs the world > Revealed – the capitalist network that runs the world > > 19 October 2011 by Andy Coghlan and Debora > MacKenziehttp://www.911forum.org.uk/board/viewtopic.php?p=158854#158854http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21228354.500-revealed--the-capi... > AS PROTESTS against financial power sweep the > world this week, science may have confirmed the > protesters' worst fears. An analysis 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 (see photo). 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." > Previous studies have found that a few TNCs own > large chunks of the world's economy, but they > included only a limited number of companies and > omitted indirect ownerships, so could not say how > this affected the global economy - whether it > made it more or less stable, for instance. > The Zurich team can. From Orbis 2007, a database > listing 37 million companies and investors > worldwide, they pulled out all 43,060 TNCs and > the share ownerships linking them. Then they > constructed a model of which companies controlled > others through shareholding networks, coupled > with each company's operating revenues, to map > the structure of economic power. > The work, to be published in PloS One, revealed a > core of 1318 companies with interlocking > ownerships (see image). Each of the 1318 had ties > to two or more other companies, and on average > they were connected to 20. What's more, although > they represented 20 per cent of global operating > revenues, the 1318 appeared to collectively own > through their shares the majority of the world's > large blue chip and manufacturing firms - the > "real" economy - representing a further 60 per cent of global revenues. > When the team further untangled the web of > ownership, it found much of it tracked back to a > "super-entity" of 147 even more tightly knit > companies - all of their ownership was held by > other members of the super-entity - that > controlled 40 per cent of the total wealth in the > network. "In effect, less than 1 per cent of the > companies were able to control 40 per cent of the > entire network," says Glattfelder. Most were > financial institutions. The top 20 included > Barclays Bank, JPMorgan Chase & Co, and The Goldman Sachs Group. > John Driffill of the University of London, a > macroeconomics expert, says the value of the > analysis is not just to see if a small number of > people controls the global economy, but rather > its insights into economic stability. > Concentration of power is not good or bad in > itself, says the Zurich team, but the core's > tight interconnections could be. As the world > learned in 2008, such networks are unstable. "If > one [company] suffers distress," says Glattfelder, "this propagates." > "It's disconcerting to see how connected things > really are," agrees George Sugihara of the > Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, > California, a complex systems expert who has advised Deutsche Bank. > Yaneer Bar-Yam, head of the New England Complex > Systems Institute (NECSI), warns that the > analysis assumes ownership equates to control, > which is not always true. Most company shares are > held by fund managers who may or may not control > what the companies they part-own actually do. The > impact of this on the system's behaviour, he says, requires more analysis. > Crucially, by identifying the architecture of > global economic power, the analysis could help > make it more stable. By finding the vulnerable > aspects of the system, economists can suggest > measures to prevent future collapses spreading > through the entire economy. Glattfelder says we > may need global anti-trust rules, which now exist > only at national level, to limit over-connection > among TNCs. Bar-Yam says the analysis suggests > one possible solution: firms should be taxed for > excess interconnectivity to discourage this risk. > One thing won't chime with some of the > protesters' claims: the super-entity is unlikely > to be the intentional result of a conspiracy to > rule the world. "Such structures are common in nature," says Sugihara. > Newcomers to any network connect preferentially > to highly connected members. TNCs buy shares in > each other for business reasons, not for world > domination. If connectedness clusters, so does > wealth, says Dan Braha of NECSI: in similar > models, money flows towards the most highly > connected members. The Zurich study, says > Sugihara, "is strong evidence that simple rules > governing TNCs give rise spontaneously to highly > connected groups". Or as Braha puts it: "The > Occupy Wall Street claim that 1 per cent of > people have most of the wealth reflects a logical > phase of the self-organising economy." > So, the super-entity may not result from > conspiracy. The real question, says the Zurich > team, is whether it can exert concerted political > power. Driffill feels 147 is too many to sustain > collusion. Braha suspects they will compete in > the market but act together on common interests. > Resisting changes to the network structure may be one such common interest. > 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. 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