Chinese Knock-offs, at 1/4th the price

[proper4wd]

That makes no sense. It's a publicly traded company with shareholders from all over the world - the majority of which are international investment entities. That doesn't make the car company any less "Chinese". Designed, built, managed, and overseen by the Chinese. International banks pick up the dividend checks...

http://investors.morningstar.com/ownership/shareholders-major.html?t=F&region=USA

http://investors.morningstar.com/ownership/shareholders-major.html?t=TTM&region=USA

Not much different

 

[dwh]

International banks pick up the dividend checks...

AND sit on the board of directors.

Not much different

Not different at all. Exactly the same. That is the point.

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


"When the team further untangled the web of ownership, it found much of it tracked back to a "super-entity" of 147 even more tightly knit companies - all of their ownership was held by other members of the super-entity - that controlled 40 per cent of the total wealth in the network. "In effect, less than 1 per cent of the companies were able to control 40 per cent of the entire network," says Glattfelder. Most were financial institutions. The top 20 included Barclays Bank, JPMorgan Chase & Co, and The Goldman Sachs Group."

 

[MagicMtnDan]

AND sit on the board of directors.






Not different at all. Exactly the same. That is the point.

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


"When the team further untangled the web of ownership, it found much of it tracked back to a "super-entity" of 147 even more tightly knit companies - all of their ownership was held by other members of the super-entity - that controlled 40 per cent of the total wealth in the network. "In effect, less than 1 per cent of the companies were able to control 40 per cent of the entire network," says Glattfelder. Most were financial institutions. The top 20 included Barclays Bank, JPMorgan Chase & Co, and The Goldman Sachs Group."

 

[dwh]

Yea. I did that a long time ago.

Tell it to the Swiss scientists who built computer models of the inter-relationships of 43,000 trans-national corporations and then discovered that they were all controlled by a small group.

You can call it Twilight Zone - doesn't change the facts.

 

[proper4wd]

Ahh, now I see where you were going with this. Should we start talking about how the Federal Reserve Bank's only purpose is to steadily devalue the US Dollar in order to force our dollars into investment accounts controlled by the small group of companies who run everything?

 

[libarata]

The Vril control everything, so who cares.

 

[JSBriggs]

"When the team further untangled the web of ownership, it found much of it tracked back to a "super-entity" of 147 even more tightly knit companies - all of their ownership was held by other members of the super-entity - that controlled 40 per cent of the total wealth in the network. "In effect, less than 1 per cent of the companies were able to control 40 per cent of the entire network," says Glattfelder. Most were financial institutions. The top 20 included Barclays Bank, JPMorgan Chase & Co, and The Goldman Sachs Group."

'Known as the Pentaverate.'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FveBzGMD6zw

-Jeff

 

[dwh]

Yea. There's Wayne's dad, and then there's plain English.


"But the study, by a trio of complex systems theorists at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, is the first to go beyond ideology to empirically identify such a network of power. It combines the mathematics long used to model natural systems with comprehensive corporate data to map ownership among the world's transnational corporations (TNCs)."



Those kooky scientists.

Kuh.
Koo.


Whatever.

The point is, just because the company is in China, doesn't mean, "It's the Chinese."