The 1,318 corporations that rule the world
After analyzing 43,060 multi-national corporations, researchers ‘revealed a core of 1,318 companies with interlocking ownerships’. The report goes on to reveal, ‘Each of the 1,318 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 1,318 appeared to collectively own through their shares of the majority of the world's large blue chip and manufacturing firms - the "real" economy - representing a further 60 percent of global revenues.’
The 147 corporations that own the 1,318
Digging even deeper where no man, or computer, has gone before, investigators explained that from among the 1,318 super-corporations, there exist the true global rulers. Richer and more powerful than most countries and governments in the world, these 147 corporations own portions of the other 1,318, who in turn own portions of the other 43,060. This multi-level and far-reaching ownership by the globe’s top 147 multi-nationals gives them an iron grip on world power and has created one united entity where competition and separation are mistakenly thought to exist.
Commenting on the overlapping corporate ownership of the ‘super-entity of 147’, the report explains, ‘all of their ownership was held by other members of the super-entity - that controlled 40 per cent of the total wealth’.