Is There a Coordinated Global Capital Withdrawal To Support A Political Agenda?

For you to understand the headline of this article you must first recognize a few points, seemingly unrelated, yet connected.  While correlation does not mean causation, the probability of coincidence is so minute it is unreal.

• Global markets simultaneously dropped around 2% on Thursday / Friday January 23-24, 2014.  
• Civil unrest has been heating up in several countries around the world
• Developing nations simultaneously report significant inflation and currency fluctuations against the US dollar.
• Global titans of industry, banking, and neoliberal politics are meeting in Davos, Switzerland at the World Economic Forum to discuss how they can save the world.

• Domestically, retailers report that the holiday season was the worst since 2008, despite the supposed recovery.
• The participation rate is at the lowest in nearly 40 years, approximately 68% of the working age population are actually employed, which is back to levels before women entered the workforce in large numbers.  This is despite the fact that many report having 2 or 3 jobs.
• Most of the jobs created since TARP and the 2008 bailouts have been in the service sector and pay the minimum wage.
• The number of people on food stamps has been steadily climbing until nearly 50 million Americans are receiving them.  
• The national debt is over 100% of gross domestic product.
• Inflation is reported by the mainstream press and the US government at or around 2%, as always, and yet alternative economists who measure inflation the way it was measured up until the 1980's suggest inflation has been around 10% for the past several years.
• There is a housing bubble underway in scattered parts of the US to the point where housing values are near all time highs.
• There is a tech bubble brewing as venture capitalists pour massive amounts of capital into startups and take them public.  Startup companies are being gobbled up by tech giants such as Google for billions of dollars, even if they have little or no profits.  Recent IPOs such as Twitter, Facebook, Zynga, Groupon, etc have massive market valuations and yet contribute nothing to a healthy and productive society.  Fun, convenient, and social for sure, but they simply draw more of our attention and energy into online experiences rather than the real physical world of sunshine and exercise.  
• Bank profits are at all time highs thanks in part to deregulation.

In today's New York Times we read this article entitled "Economic Shifts in U.S. and Chinese Markets" explaining

"The ascent of developing countries over the last decade has been fueled by two global trends: the steady rise of China and the willingness of the Federal Reserve to stimulate the economy.
Now, with both trends starting to retreat, investors have been heading for the exits in markets as far removed as Buenos Aires, Istanbul and Beijing, with effects spilling over into the rest of the world."

So here you have the New York Times, a so called liberal media publication of the highest credibility and standards in the market explaining much of the turmoil outlined in the first part of this article as being caused by the Federal Reserve's taper (reducing the monthly $85 billion dollar stimulus to $75 billion) and investors pulling out of those markets.

So coordinated and so tightly woven is this web of money.  One central bank can influence the world economies? Cause riots in the streets when food prices rise?

Here we have an independent scientific study that verifies that as few as 200 companies control

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21228354.500-revealed--the-capitalist-network-that-runs-the-world.html

The 1318 transnational corporations that form the core of the economy. Superconnected companies are red, very connected companies are yellow. The size of the dot represents revenue

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. 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)         

What if there were networks, clubs, semi secret societies that ALL of these companies belonged to? Would that be considered insider trading if members of these exclusive clubs shared details of their plans with each other?

How is it possible that ENTIRE MARKETS move 2% or more on a single day? Simultaneously? Only institutional investors can move quantities of money in that fashion.  You or I reacting to news reports couldn't possibly affect the markets.

What if these happen to be the charter members of the Federal Reserve? What if these happen to be the companies considered too big to fail by the US government? What if these companies had representatives attending Davos, Bilderberg, AIPAC, CFR, Trilateral Commission, and TPP meetings and alliances?

Would that be considered a conflict of interest? Collusion?

To be continued...