Banks 

  Who runs the capitalist system? Banks and financiers are at the top of the 
  pyramid. What do banks do? They use your deposits whether checking or savings, 
  to invest in profitable enterprises to support corporations, to make money on 
  interest on loans and, if international banks, to buy and sell the currencies 
  of nations for profit (in the same manner persons buy corporate stocks) with 
  the added purpose of supporting or endangering nations by buying to raise the 
  currency value or selling to lower it. This gives international banks 
  extraordinary power over all the nations of the world. Arbitrage is the name 
  for this action with which banks make fortunes overnight. Banks have an 
  extraordinary bookkeeping system in which money loaned is figured as money 
  earned plus a system of expanding cash into credits as much as 36 times. An 
  extraordinarily profitable business! 

  Today's banking is a worldwide system of syndicated banking called 
  Eurobanking, the currency: "Eurodollars." Eurobanks use the currency of all 
  nations and are absolutely independent of any nation in the world. All large 
  "U.S." banks are actually Eurobanks, separate entitles like nations, not 
  affiliated with the United States -Citicorp, Bank of America among them. 

  Every nation in the world, large or small, owes money to these banks. so the 
  banks control their politics and economies. When a nation lends money to 
  another nation, it merely co-signs the loan. The money actually comes from 
  these banks, and the money lent often goes not to the borrower nation but to 
  the bank to pay the borrower nation's debt to the bank. The needy nation 
  doesn't see a kopek or dime of it. Why did the U.S. lend money to Mexico? To 
  pay money Mexico owed to the banks. Why did we, earlier, lend money to the 
  former Soviet Union states? Because the banks demanded that we do so. Why did 
  the Soviet Union fail? Because the banks set up new rules for international 
  trade with which no socialist nation could cope, and the resulting debt (later 
  paid by the U.S. and other nations of the Group of Seven nations, on the 
  command of the banks) forced the end of the USSR. Why is the world losing its 
  forests? To pay debts nations owe to the banks. 

  Why do the banks have so much control over nations? Because they control the 
  world's money, and, by "arbitrage" gambling, they can destroy the value of any 
  nation's currency almost overnight, thus destroying the economy of that 
  nation. Therefore when the banks say "Jump," the nations say, "How high?" If 
  not, it's the Big Whammo, a national depression which will hit every business 
  and every person in that nation!