http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-1119-petruno-markets-20111119,0,6768632.column"Rollerball" still seems pretty far-fetched, but the occupiers are right to ring the alarm about the trend. In the aftermath of the 2008 market and economic crash, the financial and political power of major companies has only increased while workers' power has faded amid a global labor glut.
What's more, corporations grow stronger while developed-world governments are badly weakened — in no small part because of the heavier debt burdens they've taken on to try to save their economies with stimulus spending, bank bailouts and payments to the unemployed.
In August, the U.S. for the first time lost its top-rung AAA credit grade from Standard & Poor's, which cut the nation's rating to AA+, citing ballooning debt.
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AFAIC, they're doing it on purpose. They're twisting currencies and markets and resource speculation and are crashing the planet in order to gain control. What they can destroy, they can sweep up and control...just look at Italy and Greece's new PMs; both are consultants to Goldman Sachs.
Monti is an international adviser to Goldman Sachs<13> and The Coca-Cola Company.<14[br />
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mario_MontiIf it was so difficult to believe that there was coordination between police departments and mayors in the #Occupy attacks, how weird is it to make this conclusion from the Trends?