PDF Version How to Take Over the World in the Modern Era
I have made the case many times that there is a consortium using government and the media to consolidate ownership of the world’s factors of production. That initiative is focused on land labor and capital. Taking over and controlling the financial markets, mainly equities, is the least obvious but the easiest to explain. Here is the explanation.
History is full of attempts to take over the world. At any given time, some person or group has been or is making the attempt. This is the nature of the quest for power which obsesses a few but determined individuals. Continue reading

How is the bull market going to finally end? I frequently refer to anointed industries and anointed stocks. What makes them anointed? They have honed in the skill of using government for acquiring pricing power, capturing customers, rigging their markets and overriding the forces of free market competition. 
Prior to the mid 1980s, the financial markets were mostly pristine free market entities. Technology had not yet developed to the point where simultaneous bids could be placed for every stock in an index. Wealth was not so severely concentrated that a small number of equity owners could cooperate with one another for the purpose of moving their assets values higher independently of economics and earnings.