That was a good show. Caught it last weekend. Interesting, about the freemasons.
Because Bilderberg is so widely talked about, figure they're just small fish, allowed to exist by the real money people.
As said before, British & German bankers, imho, control everything, especially our Federal Reserve. It is not federal. Gov't agencies are listed in the phonebook's blue pages. The Federal Reserve is in the business section with Federal Express. Our Supreme Court has ruled repeatedly, that the Federal Reserve is outside and independent of our federal governemt. It has no reserves, but that's another story. Since it was created in its latest form in the early 1900's, it has never been audited, and runs with no accountability (except maybe to the mother office over Europe).
They, the few, determine how hard we work for what they decide our standard of living to be. What our earning power will buy, the amount of our house & car payments.
They start wars to cause countries to generate debt. Look at America. If you divide the national debt, by the number of citizens, doubt we'll ever pay back much more than interest on the debt.
Oh, and this "Business Cycle" bullshit. In times of expansion, companies, and people, spend more on equipment, more labor, addition to house, SUVs, etc. Then the belt tightening comes, workers are laid off, over-extended yuppies lose their yuppie-slum houses, retirement funds tank (look at last year).
For what? They sell our life to us at high prices, then buy back our wealth at low prices.
How? "Oh, tell Greenspan to do his little dance in front of the cameras and newspapers, then pop our number on them."
They crank that knob up and down, and we are less than ants.