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10/17/2007: "A wealthy elite controls the world"
These 9.6 million families, comprising 0.7 percent of world's households, now control some $33.2 trillion, the BCG study found. About half are located in the United States and Canada, a quarter in Europe and a fifth in the Asia-Pacific region, it said.
[ And what about the good people in the middle? They get to become labor while the elites inbreed into oblivion. ]
http://www.tagsum.com/news/960/The-Rich-Get-Richer-1-of-the-Population-Controls-a-Third-of-the-Worlds-Wealth