The List: The Enemies of Mankind

A new study has confirmed what "conspiracy theorists" have suggested for years.

The Global Economy is controlled by a few corporations, mainly banks.

Proving that there is currently no such thing as a "free market", a study released by an economic team from Zurich announced that:

"Transnational corporations form a giant bow-tie structure and that a large portion of control flows to a small tightly-knit core of financial institutions. This core can be seen as an economic “super-entity” that raises new important issues both for researchers and policy makers."

Sadly, this is not good news for America. Or the world. Trying to acquire this data has been difficult and for years we've only relied on hunches that only a few Transnational Corporations (TNCs) held control of the majority of the finances in the world. But doing the math, these researches have solid proof that the people on the top are in control.

"In effect, less than 1 per cent of the companies were able to control 40 per cent of the entire network," says James Glattfelder, one of the three researches compiling the data.

The issue is not neccesarily the "fairness" of owning so much of the world, it's more about the stability of the economy. As seen in 2008, when one of these institutions fails, it has direct and dire effects across the entire global economy.

Here's a list of the Top 50 Criminals...err...Companies that control the world:

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