Dong Wanyao's head was a little bigger when she heard this, and she stroked the bangs on her forehead. He asked, "Uncle Chen, who is the power figure in the United States?" "Normal people know that the president of the United States is not the NO.1 of the United States.

This action made Dong Wanyao, who has become a woman, reveal a charming charm, which is extremely moving.

Feng Yiyi on the side hurriedly lowered her head and drank. Miss Dong Er is so beautiful today that he feels the pressure.

Chen Xujiang had a bad impression of Dong Wanyao's father, Dong Kunming, but his impression of Dong Wanyao was okay, and he smiled: "I'm a little far away." Go back to the clue just now, and use the consortium as the starting point to sort out the context.

Buying financial products in the U.S. is as easy and normal as eating and drinking. What does this mean? Finance capital is dominant in society as a whole. It can be seen that the consortium in the United States basically controls industrial capital with bank capital.

A typical example of this is the Rockefeller consortium. With Chase Manhattan Bank as the core, there are more than 100 financial institutions such as the Chemical Bank of New York, MetLife Insurance Company and Equitable Life Insurance Company. These financial institutions directly or indirectly control many industrial and mining enterprises, and occupy an important position in various economic sectors such as metallurgy, chemicals, rubber, automobiles, food, air transportation, and telecommunications, as well as in the arms industry.

This creates a reverse vein. That is, it is possible to speculate on the consortium to which it belongs through an industrial entity or a well-known financial company. For example: General Motors, ExxonMobil, Citibank. We can even think of the five major investment banks on Wall Street as five consortia.

Goldman Sachs' assets are conservatively estimated at about $1 trillion, so can such a strong capital strength be called a consortium? ”

Lu Jing smiled, didn't he say that. If the industrial entity and financial company are reversed. The conclusions reached are absolutely specious.

The most obvious example of this is Hehua himself. If Jinghua Communication is reversed, there is no name of Hehua in the list of shareholders. Even. Lu Jing's name is not in Jinghua's list of shareholders at all.

However, people close to the decision-making level of Hehua know it. Lu Jing holds the highest decision-making power of Jinghua Communications.

Modern enterprises have cross-shareholding, various offshore companies and fund holdings registered in the tax-free paradise, and the design techniques of the secondary equity system, etc., which are complex permutations and combinations that are enough to make most people dizzy and do not understand who the real controller is.

However, Chen Xujiang does offer an idea. The influence and power that wealth possesses is expressed in the form of a voice in powerful entities and companies that dominate the financial order.

This is a power chip in Western society.

Lu Jing believes that with Chen Xujiang's knowledge, there must be a following.

Sure enough, Chen Xujiang continued: "But." It should be pointed out that the shareholders of every financial enterprise and each industrial entity have a large and small right to speak, and there are cooperation and struggles. They cannot simply be thought of as one.

For example, Goldman Sachs, Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation owns 12.5% of Goldman Sachs, so it can't be considered that Mitsui has the decision-making power of Goldman Sachs, right? It is impossible for the Americans to let the Japanese control Goldman Sachs. This is the simplest logic.

Therefore, it is a mistake to simply think of the five major investment banks on Wall Street as five conglomerates. The consortium is inevitably a monopolist in a certain industry, and it has to expand its tentacles to the fields of culture, education, science, health, publishing, and even superstructures such as government agencies.

Therefore, the second thread on assessing the sphere of influence of the consortium is the combination of capital and political power. Through guò in the U.S. government, the power figures to speculate on the consortium to which they belong. In the United States, there are four major political families. Adams, Roosevelt, Kennedy, Bush. The current US president, George W. Bush, is widely regarded as the spokesman for the interests of the oil conglomerate.

A combing of the federal and state politics in the United States can sort out some clear contexts.

We should not think of the American consortium as mysterious. The old order is collapsing as U.S. consortia infiltrate each other and form new monopolies with hybrid mega-corporations. A new order is being established.

It is undeniable that blood ties and geographical ties are still important factors for us to divide and distinguish American consortia, but in the case of extremely dispersed shareholdings of joint hybrid mega enterprises. There is also a need to add an element of interest. This is even higher than factors such as blood, race, region, and historical origin. ”

Dong Wanyao was at a loss when she heard this. Song Yuqi smiled gracefully and looked at Lu Jing. She didn't understand either. How to say that the division of American consortia according to "interests" is a common law in the world.

To say it is to say nothing.

Chen Xujiang looked at Song Yuqi. Dong Wanyao's expression suddenly smiled bitterly, and said to Lu Jing: "It seems that I didn't understand." ”

The information he has been exposed to in the United States in the past few days is organized into language, and this is roughly the case. He himself estimated that people were also confused. So, talk to Lu Jing in person.

Lu Jing smiled and waved his hand, "No, Uncle Chen, I understand what you mean." Let me tell you, do you see it right? ”

Chen Xujiang was slightly stunned, nodded with a smile, picked up the wine glass of red wine, and motioned for Lu Jing to start. Feng Yiyi got up and poured wine for a few people.

At this time, there was already some shade on the balcony, and the winter sun was no longer warm at four o'clock in the afternoon. Everyone took their seats in the living room of the suite. A few eyes fell on Lu Jing's body.

Lu Jing smiled calmly and said, "Yuqi, Wan Yao, what Uncle Chen means, I understand it like this." First of all, we must recognize that in the power structure of the United States, the power of capital is greater than the power of government. The United States is Kim Yuanzheng zhì.

To illustrate from the point of view that a few elites rule the majority, let's do the simplest screening and call Americans with a personal wealth of $100 million elite. The exception is for some who like to advertise themselves as civilian parliamentarians with their incorruptibility.

The United States has a population of two or three hundred million, so let's say that 100,000 people meet this standard. So, among these 100,000 people, what is the relationship between them?

There are three threads in this. First, the top ten American consortia in the seventies of the last century. Second, having an interest in a mega-corporation. Third, holding a key position in the U.S. government is closely linked to the economic oligarchy in a certain industry.

According to Uncle Chen, the top 10 conglomerates in the United States are no longer what they used to be. Because of mutual penetration, changes in the socio-economic super-profit industry, etc., a certain process has been replaced. The United States is a nation of immigrants. You can think of this origin as something akin to the aristocracy of Europe.

Suppose that out of these 100,000, 50,000 may belong to this "aristocratic" class.

The second vein. It's not hard to understand. Many of America's largest corporations are now owned by multiple families.

Uncle Chen's speculation about the consortium from industrial entities and well-known financial companies is based on this basis.

The third vein, the combination of George W. Bush and the oil interests, is an example. This requires a look at the bottom of American politics. Hehua can't do such a thing now. Otherwise, it will definitely be targeted by the FBI in the United States. ”

Chen Xujiang, Dong Wanyao, Song Yuqi, and Feng Yiyi all laughed. Investigate the background of the political character. It is a big no-no in any country.

Lu Jing smiled and continued: "This is a horizontal division. And then we're going to divide it vertically. By what standard? Blood, ethnicity, region, historical origin.

Bloodline, this is easy to understand, the original ten families in the United States were originally named after their surnames: Morgan, Rockefeller, DuPont, and Mellon.

Race, this is also easy to understand. Racial huddles are normal everywhere. Jews, Germans, Italians, Anglo-Saxons, etc. According to our ancient understanding, this is called the village party.

The region is easy to understand. For example, the Los Angeles elite living on the West Coast can't fly to New York on the East Coast every once in a while to attend parties and salons, right? Meantime. The industrial pillars of the U.S. are also different. Some are cars, some are oil, some are rubber.

These people naturally form small groups according to the region. For example: the California consortium, the Boston consortium, etc.

Historical origins, this is also easy to understand. From the War of Independence to the Civil War, not all the states in the United States were good brothers. It's all about the near and far relationship.

After the horizontal and vertical division, these people have to be mixed again to form a consortium.

Note, what is the definition of a consortium? We usually form a consortium of monopolies that combine huge banks and huge corporations controlled by a very small number of financial oligarchyes. A consortium is usually formed by a collection of one or several families.

The most fundamental purpose of the formation of a consortium is to pursue profits.

Here, I need to mention what Uncle Chen said. It is the change of mutual penetration between the major consortia in the United States.

For example, Rockefeller's core bank, Chase Manhattan, merged with JP Morgan in 2000 to form JP Morgan Chase Bank.

What does this create? For example, Morgan and Rockefeller have disagreements and confrontations on a certain project. But JPMorgan Chase Bank's interests may be aligned.

U.S. conglomerates are now growing across a wide range of sectors. There are a lot of cases. Leave outsiders scratching their heads. Yuqi, Wan Yao, don't you think it's complicated? As a matter of fact. There is a criterion for judging.

That's the benefits.

It should be noted that the Morgan or Rockefeller family cannot simply be regarded as a family that is unanimous with the outside world. Only when there is a common interest will it always be external. There are inevitably compromises, struggles, cooperation, and disagreements within the family.

So, to sum up the new type of consortium relationship in the United States, which is intricate and interpenetrating, you have me, and I have you. It can be summarized like this:

The elites who have extended from the original ten major consortia, the new elites who have emerged from the political and economic clubs of the Ivy League universities, the elites who have emerged from new industries and the political elites who have held the wealth gushing out, and the political elites who have interacted with each other on the basis of race, blood, region, politics, values, historical origins, and so on. Eventually, because of the convergence of interests, a new consortium relationship was formed in the monopoly group where the big banks and large enterprises combined.

It should be pointed out. Often, the shareholders of several monopolies are the same people, or the same organizations. Or some political figures can influence the decision-making of one or several monopoly groups. These people have a wide range of influence. They are the power figures of the United States. ”

Chen Xujiang smiled and applauded, "Wonderful." Lu Jing's last words were exactly what he wanted to express. (To be continued......)