Translated by an English friend.
Slightly abridged and updated translation of the original
Die Kapitalisten des 21. Jahrhunderts.
Gemeinverstndlicher Abriss zum Aufstieg der neue Finanzakteure
published by PapyRossa Verlag, Cologne, Germany in 2018
2019 by Werner Rgemer, Cologne (Germany)
Publishing House: tredition GmbH, Halenreie 40-44, 22359 Hamburg (Germany)
Cover image: pixabay.com
ISBN |
Paperback | 978-3-7497-1162-8 |
Hardcover | 978-3-7497-1163-5 |
eBook | 978-3-7497-1164-2 |
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Table of content
Introduction
History is open
I. The New Capitalist Players of the West
1. The big capital organizers: BlackRock&Co
2. Private equity investors: The exploiters
3. Hedge funds: The pillagers
4. Elite investment banks: The arrangers
5. Private banks: Discreet front for the big players
6. Venture Capitalists: The preparers
7. Traditional banks as service providers
8. The Internet capitalists
9. The civilian private army of transatlantic capital
II. The relationship USA European Union
1. Reversal of the balance of power since the First World War
2. The Internet under US supervision
3. The capitalist-digital-military complex
4. Free trade: The EU in conflict with the USA
III. China Communist-led capitalism
1. USA against Chinese self-liberation
2. The dialectic of the import of capitalism
3. State, Communist Party, Socialism
4. USA: Weaken China economically, threaten it militarily
5. China: Economic and peaceful globalization
IV. Present and Future of Earthly Society
List of Abbreviations
Bibliography
Portraits
The Norwegian Sovereign Wealth Fund Norges
The supreme populist: BlackRock boss Larry Fink
Stephen Schwarzman/Blackstone
Ray Dalio/Bridgewater
John Kornblum and Felix Rohatyn/Lazard
Wilbur Ross From Rothschild-Banker to US Secretary of Commerce
Emmanuel Macron From Rothschild banker to President of France
Peter Thiel / Founders Fund
Jeffrey Bezos/Amazon
Eric Schmidt The Google-Instagram-LinkedIn-Pentagon-Complex
Jack Ma / Alibaba: Inclusive globalization
Tables and Lists
Top Twenty of the largest capital organizers
BlackRock&Co as co-owner of the 30 DAX companies
The 50 largest private equity investors
The largest dozen hedge funds
The centers of elitist digital populism
Electric vehicles, new registrations 2017
Chinas company purchases in Germany
Chinas company purchases in the EU
Four Chinese banks among the worlds 10 largest banks
Silk Road projects
Introduction
History is open
World peace is maintained through collective measures.
Equal rights and the self-determination of peoples govern international relations Article 1, United Nations Charter, after end of World War II, 1945
Si vis pacem cole justitia!
If you want peace, promote social justice!
Motto of the International Labor Organization (ILO) founded after World War I, since 1945 sub-organization of the UNO
1,0 satellites orbit the earth and collect, it is said, every piece of data about our planet: Cities, villages, deserts, gorges, mountains, climate, winds, storms, volcanoes, traffic flows, ocean floors, schools of fish and birds, refugees, oil fields and metals deep in the ground, manned and unmanned aircraft, military bases, drones, terrorists but who are the producers and operators of the satellites, who are the owners of the car factories, energy companies, apartments, skyscrapers, banks, electricity and transport networks, supermarkets, toll roads, hotel and restaurant chains, television stations? And who owns, for example, Coca Cola, Goldman Sachs, Exxon, Deutsche Bank, Ryan Air, Zalando and the New York Times? And who owns the world-famous digital giants Google, Amazon, Facebook, Microsoft, Apple, Uber and Airbnb?
Capitalism, financial capitalism, globalization, market economy: For decades, there has been a lot of general and, of course, always critical fabulation and claims about why they are bad or good after all or indeed should exist at all. The obvious question is: Who are the capitalists, the financial capitalists, the globalizers, the market economists? What are their names? How do they work (if it can be called that)? What do they do, in politics, in society, in nature, among themselves and above all in our working and social conditions? Another question: Are they involved in wars or do they promote peace? Or do they perhaps (seemingly) not care?
Western presidents and heads of government like the German chancellors of all populist parties and genders and the fake producers of the leading media talk about the markets, mostly with a threatening undertone: If we do not obey the markets, woe betide us! For example, the state must save and actually save even more. But who are the markets? Where do they reside?
Trade unions and leading media routinely fret about corporate boards and managers and their millions in income, but fail to ask about the owners and their hundredfold higher profits. Freedom of opinion does not apply here either. It is invoked as a high Western value but it is devalued by the dismantling of freedom of information. And the dependent employees in the companies have no freedom of opinion, but a muzzle. Knowledge and freedom of expression for a small radical minority ignorance and muzzle for the dependent majority.
When the big, powerful banks of the Western world between New York, London, Paris, Milan, Madrid and Frankfurt had speculated their way into joint bankruptcy up to 2007, they had to be rescued with state money, i.e. our tax money to which they themselves had contributed little at any rate, this was what the loud spokespersons of the markets claimed. The banks were rescued in breach of market rules because they were systemically relevant. Aha so there is a system enthroned above the sacred free market economy? A higher freedom, a higher system that can, so to speak, out of the blue or gloomy sky, override the iron market laws if necessary? Who is that? Are they human beings, or are they indeed extrahuman or superhuman beings?
After the bank bailout: The new capital powers
Following bankruptcy and bailout, these systemically important banks were stripped of their power. Capital organizers like BlackRock, who had also contributed to the financial crisis they are now the system, they are officially called shadow banks, and they are now the owners of the big banks and the stock exchanges and, above all, the most important companies. Today, several dozen other top league financial players of the BlackRock ilk operate, largely unregulated and unknown; in addition, there are the new second and third league financial players, who are also barely regulated, i.e. private equity funds, hedge funds, venture capitalists, elite investment banks and the Internet stars they promote and control, such as Apple and Microsoft, and the players in the platform economy, such as Google, Amazon, Facebook/Alphabet, Uber, Airbnb.
