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The 147 Corporations Controlling Most of the Global Economy

rubycodez writes “Researchers at the Swiss Federal Technology Institute in Zurich have identified a ‘Capitalist Network’ [PDF] of well-connected companies that control most of the global economy. They further identified the 147 ‘super-connected’ companies that control forty percent or more of the global financial network. If one believes the mega-corporations have most governments of the west in their pockets, does this mean we have a global oligarchy?”

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