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The World from Berlin: 'Obama's Middle East Policy Is in Ruins'
US embassies in the Muslim world were on high alert Friday following days of violent protests against an anti-Islam film. Germany, too, closed several embassies in fear of attacks. Some German commentators argue that the violence shows that Obama's Middle East policies have failed.
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"Some German commentators argue that the violence shows that Obama's Middle East policies have failed." You think so, Sherlock? What was your first clue?
Actually, BO has no real foreign policy. He has little understanding of events, and little interest, unless it advances his Marxist domestic goals. |
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their national vanity and stupidity. They will then massacre each other, thus giving room for our own people." (Rabbi Reichorn, in Le Contemporain, July 1st, 1880) |
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As an American, I can tell you that these words are essentially wasted except as a warning for how the next four years will go and probably many years beyond. NONE of this matters in the upcoming election, where most Americans will consider one thing and one thing only as they vote: Obama's RACE. They are guilt-tripped into voting for a Black man. In fact, our mainstream press is not even covering his foreign policy shortcomings; they are calling Mitt Romney a racist for criticizing Obama's foreign policy, which will doom Mitt in the polls.
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Premature gloating.
It appears the anti-American habit kicked in immediately.
Now with news coming these mobs were pre-planned for Sep 11 and not spontaneous as it appeared, this article appears to be as bad as the discredited anti-British article about the London olympis before the games even started. There is a reason why schadenfreude is a German word. Instead of doing an indepth educative article on the Al Quaeda elements and the extremists Salafists who whipped up this so mob, Der Speigel did its usual lazy journalism to take a swipe at America. The islamists only won a few seats in the Libyan elections and the secularists got the most number of seats. And this latest mob attacks are their attempts to get into power through other means. Create unstability, kick the Americas out so that the secular Libyans will be too weak to resist the extremists's violence.
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As alarming as the scenes shown endlessly on cable television are, and as tragic as the loss of life is, a couple things seem understated: The Libyan consulate attack appears to have been a premeditated action that made use of the controversy stirred up by the ridiculously amateurish and obscene anti-Muslim video, and, the protests look horrific close up for the television, but involved very few people.
The "rule by mob" scenario is a familiar one, as are the obligatory US flag burnings (even if they have to make a comedic facsimile out of a bedsheet!), the combination of which always stirs up American patriotism, that urge to go cowboy on those ungrateful Muslim a*******! Obama did the right thing, however. Get the facts first, then act. It doesn't matter what the rest of the world thinks. There is a considerable strength of character NOT to take military action every time citizens of unfriendly or unstable countries express their opinions (freedom speech, eh!?) in general mayhem on the streets and against American diplomatic posts and citizens. They soil their own nest. America will survive a little tweak, maybe even a well-deserved one, from time to time. Murder of our diplomats and diplomatic staff rest on the souls of those responsible, as do those of the demonstrators killed in protests that are so misdirected and unfocused that they condemn the actions of an Egyptian conman and some anti-Muslim moneymen as actions of the US Government and 312,000,000 Americans, most of whom would laugh at this stupid little film (it's so poorly produced and so obviously the product of ignorant and intolerant people) if it hadn't had such terrific and tragic results. Earlier comments suggest a smug satisfaction that this happened to American interests. (Shadenfreude for sure!)The right wing supporters of Romney see Obama as a bumbler; I see Romney as "not presidential" in the way he barged in to condemn Obama before he- Romney- knew the facts. Shoot then aim: You Europeans ALWAYS have problems with US presidents like that, the Ronald Reagans, the George Bushes, our "cowboy presidents", so I was surprised Obama didn't get a little credit for his measured response to this mess. Seriously, you don't want to have to deal with a Romney presidency, do you?! |
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The US goes to war too easily without thinking on the consequences and worst, with a clear definition of objectives, pragmatic criteria of failure and success and a get-out strategy in both cases.
Take for instance the assassination of Osama Bin Laden, the immoral aim was achieved at the cost of a virtual war with Pakistan, neither a clever planning nor execution to say the least if we compare taking into account the relation of forces and difficulty with Otto Skorzeny's rescue of Mussolini. When Kissinger was asked in a famous interview about the reasons for invading Iraq for the second time considering that Saddam Hussein was not connected with Sep 11, he cynically answered: �because Afghanistan was not enough�. Well, a major war in the antipodes needs a better reason than that, vendetta, Kissinger�s explanation was not enough� Especially considering that he is an experienced �trouble-shutter� sorting-out the major American disaster post WW II, Vietnam� Another problem is that one president starts a war, Bush Jr. for instance and another has to finish it, Obama. This is not a minor issue, the delicate process of finishing a war successfully is far more difficult that starting it. Note that Bush Snr. adopted a well calculated balanced strategy after invading Iraq the first time, especially considering the ending of the war. Bush Jr. started a full blown conflict with no true motives and no exit strategy even in the case of complete victory. The conclusion is that the �world leader� in weapons is totally irresponsible in both military and also financially, and the prospect is even worse, Obama have shown that he cannot even close Guantanamo Cuba, let alone finishing wars responsibly, and Romney thinks that John Wayne�s �wanted dead or alive� will magically sort-out all the problems� Not a pretty picture to say the least. |
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What would Judy do for "Scandal"?
ABC's new series developed by "Grey's Anatomy" creator, Shonda Rhimes, called "Scandal," is a show about a Washington insider named Olivia Pope who works as a "fixer," preventing beltway scandals.
The series is partially based on Judy Smith, a former Bush administration press aide, who leads her own crisis communications firm, and serves as a co-executive producer on "Scandal."
In order to give a unique real-world look at how she would solve problems that Olivia Pope is faced with on "Scandal," ABC has provided a "What Would Judy Do?" blog, where executive producer provides a deeper looking into issues of crisis management. The blogs are pretty exhaustive, and serve to add a bit of credibility to the prime-time drama.
While not necessarily a narrative addition to the site's offerings, this kind of content is great to build out the world that Olivia Pope works in. It would have been fun to have this kind of blog written in-character as Olivia Pope, to give her a detailed staff briefing on her decision making over the course of an episode… but then that would have been a little too out-of-character for somebody who's job is keeping secrets, instead of sharing them on a blog.
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POMONA - City Council members overturned a decision of the Historic Preservation Commission Monday night and referred a downtown businessman to the city's Planning Commission to address a change to part of the Fox Theater's facade.
In April the Historic Preservation Commission denied the request of businessman John Pena to authorize changes he had already made to his business, the Fox Sports Bar and Grille. The business is at 333 S. Garey Ave., along the eastern side of the Fox Theater building.
Council members voted 4 to 3 in favor of overturning the decision. Council members Danielle Soto, Cristina Carrizosa and Paula Lantz voted in opposition.
The decision came after council member listened to six members of the public speak in favor of Pena's project and five speakers spoke against it.
According to a city staff report, Pena removed a set of windows and replaced them with a floor-to-ceiling folding door system without pulling a permit for the project.
Pena said he committed an error by not applying for a permit and said the improvements do not harm the character of the building.
The improvements add to the appeal of the business and add to atmosphere that attracts customers, he said.
Businesses located in older buildings in cities such as Pasadena and downtown Los Angeles are able to make modifications as part of improving the look of their facilities, Pena said.
"To be competitive in downtown
Fox owner Jerry Tessier spoke in support of Pena and said the adaptive reuse of older buildings requires making some changes.
Design guidelines for historic buildings issued by the federal Secretary of the Interior's Standards for Rehabilitation are just that, guidelines for which "there are different interpretations," Tessier said.
Members of the city's preservationist community said the changes Pena made harm the historic nature of the building.
John Clifford, president of the Friends of the Pomona Fox, said that like Pena he likes seeing the increase in activity downtown.
"I love the idea there is a vibrant Pomona," Clifford said adding that he and others "want the historic buildings to survive."
Older buildings require modern improvements but "the problem comes when you change the facade," Clifford said. "He's put in doors where there were no doors."
Others such as downtown property owner David Armstrong said Pena broke city regulations when he moved forward with the modifications to the building without having authorization from the city.
In addition, the changes have had an impact on neighboring residents and business people who can hear noise coming from the building when the doors are open, Armstrong said.
He also pointed out that the modifications could affect the property owners' participation in a historic preservation tax incentive program.
The Fox Theater is taking part in a program that involves the state Office of Historic Preservation and the National Park Services, according to a city staff report.
The state has contacted Tessier and informed him the modifications Pena made were presented for approval of corresponding state and federal agencies, the report said.
Councilman Freddie Rodriguez said the changes were similar to those businesses have carried out in other cities and have added something to a local, successful downtown business.
But others like Councilwoman Paula Lantz expressed concerns about Pena's disregard for local regulations.
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They need to take full advantage of the relationship with the Saints and get Davis a red practice jersey.
I really hope he plays. Came to town for the holidays and purchased 15 tickets for my family to go to the game. That would really suck if he doesn't suit up...
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A lot of that going around. Seriously, what the diddle is with this team and weak ankles? I hope they never have to run from Jason Vorhees in the woods at some point.
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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. Sugihara 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.
When this article was first posted, the comment in the final sentence of the paragraph beginning "Crucially, by identifying the architecture of global economic power…" was misattributed.
The top 50 of the 147 superconnected companies
1. Barclays plc
2. Capital Group Companies Inc
3. FMR Corporation
5. State Street Corporation
6. JP Morgan Chase & Co
7. Legal & General Group plc
8. Vanguard Group Inc
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
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
* Lehman still existed in the 2007 dataset used
Graphic: The 1318 transnational corporations that form the core of the economy
(Data: PLoS One)
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Thu Oct 20 00:21:45 BST 2011 by Lesq1
It's interesting that only ONE of the top 50 appears to have any connection with real production - China Petrochem. All the rest are, as far as one can tell, just a bunch of money launderers.
There may be a few issues with this analysis but it tends to confirm what most of the world thinks is wrong with unfettered global capitalism - the vast majority of people are working their fingers to the bone to vastly increase the wealth of a tiny minority.
Global capitalism, as it currently stands, does not work for the benefit of humanity as a whole - indeed, if one were to look at the record of this top 50 on the environment and climate change, it would rapidly become obvious that it actually works contrary to the interests of humanity.
Something need to change and, sadly, it will likely be the fall of democracy before the emergence of socially responsible form of global capitalism.
Money Launderers
Thu Oct 20 00:52:46 BST 2011 by Robert North
Contrary to the previous blogger I would argue that Capitalism functions exclusively for individuals. It is not an accident that the largest companies and most connected are banks and those that work to offset and move risk about. Basically we have created a world where the biggest activity is accumulating wealth and storing it or moving it into safer forms. The combined efforts of billions of individuals acting similarly produces the efficient provider sydrome. As the article suggests the only conspiracy is our collective human nature at work
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Thu Oct 20 00:54:39 BST 2011 by Robert North
The image reminds me of those which show the earth surrounded by space junk.
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Fri Oct 21 17:49:45 BST 2011 by TheLibrarianApe
"I would argue that Capitalism functions exclusively for individuals. "
The facts and economic theory show that those with capital will seek to acquire more capital, control the means of production and move from 'true competition' to 'monopolistic competition' or even 'monopoly' where competitors are eliminated from the market and demand ceases to determine the price for a commodity or service.
This is what we see with banking services, energy supply and other product markets. If one is interested in maximising the benefit from markets one would argue that the closer to true competition we can get, the more money will circulate and therefore generate future wealth.
The over-investment of the last two decades have resulted in high prices, money leaking out of circulation and accumulating with the few at the expense of the many. This describes what we see: economic slow down and market failure.
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Thu Oct 20 14:30:23 BST 2011 by Eric Kvaalen
Lesq1, you seem to forget that banks are institutions where ordinary people like you and me deposit our money in the hopes that they will make some profit from it and pay us some interest! If you don't like banks and pension funds, then take your money out of them and put it under the mattress or buy metals. Have you done that?
I'm afraid that the fall of democracy may be brought on by all these anti-capitalist protesters and their demonstrations and riots (as in Rome last Saturday).
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Fri Oct 21 13:17:54 BST 2011 by Sandy Henderson
Hi Eric - It would appear that pyramid schemes and Ponzi schemes come in many guises,and the laxity in the regulation of the markets of financial instruments has allowed people to leverage more money than they have to back their speculation. There does not have to be a conspiracy for groups with similar interests to act in concert. Britain, the USSR, and USA all fought against a common enemy, but had different ideologies. Whilst big supermarket chains compete, they do not take it to the level where it starts to hurt. Because national governments do not harmonise on tax, transnational companies can exploit the differences like the stairs in an Escher painting, and transfer their tax share onto somebody else. Once they ( the transnational company ) acheive a certain critical mass, this is the rational ( though not necessarily moral ) way to behave. It does not bode well for us all longer term, because it ignores longer term effects
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Sat Oct 22 07:24:03 BST 2011 by Eric Kvaalen
I wonder whether you aren't responding to Robert North's comment rather than mine?
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Fri Oct 21 16:11:56 BST 2011 by Matt
Perhaps our current form of representative democracy will eventually reorganize into a more direct form of political participation, but it's not going to happen as a result of a few months of protest. I think what people around the world are finally waking up to is the value of transparency and accountability, that we no longer should place our faith in long-established power structures that organize and function independently of the interests of humanity. This is an unsettling time, but rightfully so
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Sat Oct 22 07:35:58 BST 2011 by Eric Kvaalen
"...but it's not going to happen as a result of a few months of protest."
What about what happened in Tunisia and Egypt? Or France in 1968?
What I fear is that these anti-capitalists (and their anarchist "friends") will tear down our democratic structures without having a good alternative. The last couple times this happened, it led to the horrors of the Soviet Union and the "People's Republic of China".
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Sun Oct 23 09:59:10 BST 2011 by Tilly
What! Wake up out of the past!
It's democracy - and civilisation - that is now threatened by capitalism and the corruption of politics that naturally goes with it. Protest is an expression of a still hopefully free and democratic society.
Whilst capitalism might have fuctioned OK in the past. the world has changed and it's capitalism that threatens to destroy society - capitalists see a sinking ship and wonder whether to help fix it or whether to plunder it for their own short term profit - at the expense of everyone else and their own future.
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Sun Oct 23 14:00:13 BST 2011 by Eric Kvaalen
Peaceful protest is one thing -- as a way of influencing public opinion and thereby affecting the results of elections, not as a way of forcing the government to make concessions in order to get the protesters off the streets. The kind of riots that have been seen in Rome and in Greece (or in France in 2005) are something else.
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Mon Oct 24 07:44:38 BST 2011 by Sandy Henderson
Hi Tilly- I'm not sure where you set the boundaries of what is,or isn't,capitalism. You must be wary not to fall into the old trap of displacement - displacement is putting the blame for human errors and failings onto something else (e.g alcohol, tobacco )
My simple view of capitalism is putting your own money and capital behind your investments and speculations. This usually produces prudent behaviour because the penalties for poor choices are bourne by those making them.When individuals and institutions leverage more money by borrowing to then use for speculation the risks can run away from the rewards. The whole sorry financial mess is down to irresponsibility from those who could and should have kept things in proportion, but didn't because they and their friends were getting too well rewarded in the short term. Any political system that does not have adequate checks and balances on these aspects of human nature is likely to produce a similar result.
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Mon Oct 24 02:23:00 BST 2011 by Shane
We have building societies and credit unions here in Australia, Eric. Models that run counter to the capitalist model. We also have a reasonably well regulated banking system. None of our banks needed to be bailed out.
You are afraid that the fall of democracy will be brought about by anti-capitalist protestors, but are not worried about the fall of democracy brought about by the destabilisation of the global economy by unregulated capitalist greed?
Seems like your perspective and risk analysis is skewed.
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Mon Oct 24 05:14:15 BST 2011 by Eric Kvaalen
We have credit unions in the US as well. If people prefer to put their money in a credit union (as I have done) they can.
Probably the banking system in the US and the UK does need more regulation (I don't know about other countries). But that should be brought about by the democratic systems we have, not by mob rule.
Yes, you are right that there is a danger of a fall of democracy through destabilization of the economy, as happened in Germany in the 1920's and '30's. But frankly that's more or less what I'm talking about. The mob rule I fear, if it comes about, will be a result of the economic difficulties we are in. I am not saying that our capitalist system is just fine and shouldn't be regulated. I'm just saying that change should be brought about democratically, not through sit-ins or riots.
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Sun Oct 23 12:51:29 BST 2011 by Jean Clelland-Morin
Where we have arrived with our convoluted, corrupt tax-economic system may not be a cospiracy, but it may as well be.
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Sun Oct 23 17:23:51 BST 2011 by Jim R
Yes, it is interesting that one of the top 50 is a production company from China, but not in the way you think. The 49 banks and investment groups (or money launderers as you called them) is the norm, that's how the system is supposed to work, the one production company is the strange exception.
How it works is this, you earn some money and would like to save it for education or retirement or whatever (at least I hope you're doing this), you don't put the money under your bed, you save it to a bank or mutual fund, who may invest your money in production company and thus earn you some returns and collect some fee themselves.
I didn't read the paper, but I bet in this case the researcher assigned the ownership of the investment to the bank instead of to you, and this is the problem with their analysis. Since banks and investment groups manage a huge pile of money (which is not theirs, but belongs to their clients), it's quite normal for them to "own" a large part of the economy.
Now what's interesting is a Chinese petro company ends up also owning a large part of the economy, they're not a bank or mutual fund, so where did their money comes from and who is the real owner of their money?
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Mon Oct 24 00:04:41 BST 2011 by Smarter Party
Look - many of these banks are bust. They are actually much less important than it looks. Lets imagine that there is only £1 in circulation in the world. Now pass that £1 to every company on earth and guess what every transaction has got a bank in the middle. These guys supply the financial channels to pass that £1 around and they pass it around very fast. They owe that £1 a zillion times - but there is only £1 in the network. The real mystery is how you pay the bonuses by sharing out that £1. That is what doesn't add up
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Mon Oct 24 03:16:51 BST 2011 by Otaznik
It is easy. Banks lead different accountancy bookkeeping. They can make "fiat money" not only for loans, but also for salery and bonuses. They do not need to get any money from other entity to pay salary or bonuses. Some info in Czech language here: http://www.nasepenize.cz/jak-vznikaji-a-zanikaji-penize-3303#Pro srovnání povinného ručení stiskni ENTER
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Mon Oct 24 05:19:57 BST 2011 by Eric Kvaalen
I don't know about the Czech Republic, but what you say is not true in the United States. Banks have to keep a certain percentage of the money which has been deposited with them (actually they put it in an account with the Federal Reserve) and can only lend the rest. This certainly multiplies the effective amount of money in the economy, but not infinitely and not at their will.
What you're saying may be somewhat true of central banks, but not of normal banks.
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Mon Oct 24 15:34:22 BST 2011 by Zud
Uhhhh I guess when you read Atlas Shrugged, you were rooting for the bureaucrats.
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Mon Oct 24 16:33:01 BST 2011 by Dan Ogden
What this thread and the overwhelming majority of posters on it demonstrate is a lack of understanding as to how the financial services industry works.
Is it any wonder that the list so closely mirrors the top 100 largest asset managers? No, because through pension plans, 401k/403b plans and individual funds, they manage trillions in assets -- assets ultimately belonging to individuals who are predmoninantly not in the "1%".
Furthermore, the inclusion of the DTCC -- the Depository Trust Clearing Corporation -- is riduculous. It's a CLEARING HOUSE that all large, self-clearing firms participate in. Securities held in brokerage accounts in "street name" - negotiable form, but still owned by the individual account holder - get book/computer entry notation at the DTCC...but are neither owned, custodied or controlled by the DTCC. The DTCC merely acts as an intermediary, the same way your bank does when you deposit a check Joe Smith writes you -- Joe's check (and the currency it represents) is not owned or even controlled by the bank, merely processed by it.
I won't even go into detail on the mutual insurance companies on the list except to say that these companies are 100% owned by their policy holders.
Finally, there are a list of 'custodian banks' on the list -- companies who hold the assets of asset managers to ensure timely and accurate processing of things like foreign dividend and bond interest payments, name changes (as in the case of mergers), foreign currency conversion and the like. Again, they do not OWN or CONTROL the assets, they merely HOUSE the assets on behalf of a third party. And several of those custodian banks (like JPMorgan Chase, Bank of New York Mellon and Citibank) have very large custody businesses AND very large asset management businesses, further obfuscating the issue to the uninitiated.
A better list would be the actual asset *owners*, rather than the vendors who manage, invest house and clear said assets on behalf of third parties, including (primarily) the general public.
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Sun Oct 30 07:08:34 GMT 2011 by Sandy Henderson
Hi Dan -excellent post. One simple question, are you saying that the researchers ( and some of us ) are confusing capital with turnover, or not making a clear enough distinction?
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Tue May 28 17:49:12 BST 2013 by Dan Ogden
Not at all - what I'm saying is that "capital" is being confused with "ownership".
Let's say a 100% liquid trillionaire has a bank account with Chase - if the list includes Chase as "controlling" the trillion dollars of its depositor, this is an inaccurate depiction of who the wealth actually belongs to - it's still the trillionaire's, not Chase's.
The same goes for asset managers - they do not control the funds, they are holding them and investing them for many third parties - a large number of which, themselves, are investing with the asset manager on behalf of other third parties (like a corporate pension plan that invests with Fidelity - the $ belongs to the investors, not the corporate pension plan and not Fidelity).
Further, clearing houses are listed - which actually clear the trades for member firms. They control nothing.
So what is happening is that $1 in invested funds is being counted by corporate pension plans, the asset managers and brokerage firms they invest with, the custodians that house the funds and the clearing house that processes the trades - each is reporting $1 according to the list above, but there is still only a single dollar to report in the first place.
Hope that clarifies.
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Sun Nov 06 09:00:55 GMT 2011 by Van Fruniken
It is not capitalism per se that is wrong and that should be thrown out just like the baby with the bathwater, it is the way capitalism is EVOLVING.
E.g., the stockmarket, which is now governed by computer algorithms whose goal is only to gain most out of speculation; the result is a degree of positive feedback never seen before, which makes the system unstable. The goal of the stockmarket should not be satisfying greed only, but foremost to be supportive to the economy. The question is, who should gain most from the stockmarket? The productive part of the economy, or the speculators? What part of investing is useful and what part constitutes leeching?
As a minimal approach the system parameters should be adjusted such that the economy, maybe even humanity, benefits from it, rather than being destroyed by it.
This crisis is partly the result of bad financial software, written that way either intentionally or through incompetence.
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Thu Oct 20 01:19:23 BST 2011 by polistra
All this analysis was unnecessary. Any engineer or programmer knows the hazards of a tightly-coupled large system. Economists should have seen the same problem when the Soviet empire collapsed, but they didn't because economists are frauds.
The solution is simple in concept. Decouple as much as possible. Break up the EU, eliminate multinational trade organizations. Return to the pre-1970 condition of sovereign nations making bilateral trade arrangements. Eliminate every incentive that favors cross-border flows of goods, capital and jobs; those should only happen when they give a real advantage to the PEOPLE of BOTH nations in the transaction.
Catchy Title, But . . .
Thu Oct 20 03:48:53 BST 2011 by Jeff Corkern
I hope New Scientist realizes with the title they've chosen, every conspiracy theorist will now claim to have New Scientist's endorsement.
For a publication supposedly dedicated to eliminating "fruit-loopery", this title is going to hurt your cause.
What'll happen is the conspiracy theorists will just link to the title, and few if any will actually read the article. Your cause will not be helped with the fuzzy writing on this one, either. It's not made clear the title was intended purely as a joke, that this article was about a stability analysis of interconnected systems, and not about a vast grand conspiracy of All-Powerful Evil Zen Masters Who Rule The World.
I don't think New Scientist was aware of the danger.
I sense the terrible naivete of scientists again---
Jeff Corkern
Consider the following as a statement of logic, and rank it as "True" or "False":
"If people possess immortal souls, it should be possible to logically deduce this by objective analysis of their actions."
Catchy Title, But . . .
Thu Oct 20 08:24:41 BST 2011 by kevin
The trouble isn't the network. It is that sociopathic monsters are drawn to power(in a human sense) and this will determine whether the system lands safely on a airfield or crashes directly into a wall, throwing its passengers into a new dark age. New Scientist appears to be looking at the pretty buildings not the people inside them here? We can all predict 9/11 nowadays...
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Catchy Title, But . . .
Fri Oct 21 00:12:22 BST 2011 by Jeff Corkern
I more or less agree. The real problem is the people who compose the network, not the network itself.
If the people composing a network are smart enough and understand the rules governing network behavior, the network will be perfectly stable, no matter how tightly interconnected.
(I think my prediction about the title attracting the more conspiracy-minded is coming true. An amazing 200 hits on The Nine Point Five Theses today from this article.*g*
I would suggest to New Scientist a quick editing of this article to indicate the title is a joke.)
Jeff Corkern
Consider the following as a statement of logic, and rank it as "True" or "False":
"If people possess immortal souls, it should be possible to logically deduce this by objective analysis of their behavior."
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Sat Oct 22 23:45:07 BST 2011 by mark
power is energy and energy creates power now how the power is used is as in nature it is natural like the sun shining a simple realisation think simple do not get confused with confusion as adding or applying something to lets say a word becomes another word to explain this it can quite easily become confusing science is based on formula and manipulated same way this system or capitalism socialism whatever ism has right from beginning just simply tricked us with a complex system when in reality is very simple the solution to a problem can only be a problem when there is deception hiding something from us so they keep for themselves we can not solve anothers problem if we dont see the problem we think spend all time energy philosophying a continuation of the problem part of problem is statistatical anaysis law of probability and the precautionary principle bigger part than you think as that is all our belief system is based on
Catchy Title, But . . .
Sun Oct 23 07:00:29 BST 2011 by Eric Kvaalen
you need to replace your keyboard
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Wed Oct 26 12:19:10 BST 2011 by Derpington
Nowhere does the article claim that it's about " a vast grand conspiracy of All-Powerful Evil Zen Masters Who Rule The World". If conspiracy hypothesists misinterpret it, that's their problem.
If you only wanted to write articles about scientific studies that can't be misinterpreted by conspiracy hypothesists then... you couldn't write any articles about scientific studies.
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Thu Oct 27 02:16:16 BST 2011 by Jeff Corkern
Sure, but that's no reason to feed the conspiracy theorists' fantasies. New Scientist has an active campaign (which I whole-heartedly support) against what they have dubbed "fruit-loopery", irrational thinking, and promoting rational thinking. They slipped a bit here and hurt that cause.
New Scientist editors wanted a catchy title, and they came up with a really good one. But the danger is people taking it literally, a danger New Scientist apparently didn't anticipate. So have the catchy title, but make sure the accompanying article explains the title was meant as a joke.
(Hmm, a quick re-read shows the article now does that.)
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