Who Owns America?Follow

If you had to write a paper on who owns America for a International Business class, what would you write about?

I want to help Mr. Tare with some research but I have very little expertise on the subject. Need a point in some direction...

Helpplskkthx...

Me! I conquered it fair and square! They just haven't noticed yet.

For an international business class, this would probably be the best bet...I didn't really read the question, because I'm tired and useless. Also: dirty socialist.

Nexa

If I had to write it, I'd start by trying to define the terms. "own" is linked to property rights, so it must refer to ownership of things that make the "material" America: goods, land, money, services, intellectual property, etc... Clearly there isn't a single entity that "owns" all of this. Each of those categories of property will be owned, in differing proportions, by the US government, corporations, individuals, foreign nations, etc. Since its a business class, you should obviously put an emphasis on the financing of all this, who provides the funds to keep it all going, investment vehicles, banks, pension funds, both at home and those from abroad.

And then you'll conclude that America is owned by a myriad of financial interests, some from abroad, some from home, some you vote for, some that are just born there, etc...

Foreign ownership of US companies:

Good? Bad? A necessary evil? Makes America great?

I think this is the route I'll be taking...interested in your thoughts, of course.

And thanks, btw, for the input already. You people are teh smrt.

The federal reserve.

Wrong. You own more than nothing. You can tell people to "get off of my property" even though the bank owns a security interest. You can paint your kitchen without asking someone else's permission (unless you have a wife). You can knock down the fence without having to compensate someone else for the damages. You could not do that if you owned nothing.

The local government and/or utility companies own easements to reach power lines, phone lines, water lines, etc. They can knock down a fence if you put one up that interferes with their access. The mortgage company can do none of these things as long as you keep up on your payments.

That's the "right to exercise dominion" I was talking about.

You own most of the ownership rights with some exceptions (like easements); the mortgage company owns a security interest which gives them no control over the property except for what is written in the mortgage agreement.

So you own most of the rights, you just don't own all of them ... ever ... even after you pay off all of the liens.

Don't forget Iran!

The terrorist. They pwnded US before and they'll do it again.