text: joseppi,  its much worse than anyone imagines. charter communications, which owns time warner only has 825 stockholders, the same guys that own all or controlling interest in the forbes 2000. itrs crazy, about a thousand guys on this planet, through ten thousand subsidiaries, that own everything. governments, you and me, even your dog. you think mcgraw-hill publishes books, think again. hedge fund managers control through money put up by the thousand really, really rich guys. here are the top hedge funds out of thousands world wide.
  MANAGER	       COMPANY	ASSETS MANAGED
  CEO	                  NAME	          TRILLIONS
  laurance fink	   blackrock	                       $4.6
  jiang jiaqnqingt ind & commbank of china	$3.4
  jamie dimon	   jp morgan chase	$2.4
  brian moynihan bank of america	$2.2
  total		$12.6
  
  http://www.nasdaq.com/symbol/chtr/ownership-summary
  https://www.forbes.com/sites/brendancoffey/2011/10/26/the-four-companies-that-control-the-147-companies-that-own-everything/#7f8202f3685b