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To: Real Man who wrote (396034)	10/17/2009 8:22:49 AM
From: MythMan	2 Recommendations Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 436258

they should have let them go under.

To: Real Man who wrote (396034)	10/17/2009 3:27:57 PM
From: axial	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 436258

Wholesale market manipulation is easier than people think... Study Asserts World’s Stocks Controlled by "Select Few" nakedcapitalism.com --- " Indeed, it has been known for over 75 years that the Anglo-Saxon countries have the highest occurrence of widely held firms [56]. This statement, that the control of corporations is dispersed amongst many shareholders, invokes the intuition that there exists a multitude of owners that only hold a small amount of shares in a few companies. However, in contrast to such intuition, our main finding is that a local dispersion of control is associated with a global concentration of control and value. This means that only a small elite of shareholders continually reappears as the controlling entity of all stocks, without ever having been previously detected or reported on. On the other hand, in countries with local concentration of control (mostly observed in European states), the shareholders tend to only exert control over a single corporation, resulting in dispersion of global control and value. Finally we also observe that the US financial sector holds the seat of power at an international level. It will remain to be seen, if the continued unfolding of the current financial crisis will tip this balance of power, as the US financial landscape faces a fundamental transformation in its wake." arxiv.org Jim