Who Owns the World?

Many of the things you buy from competing brands on the market could actually be from a small group of mega corporations. Find out who the puppet masters are.

STORY AT-A-GLANCE

• A handful of mega corporations — private investment companies — dominate every aspect of our lives; everything we eat, drink, wear or use in one way or another. These investment firms are so enormous, they control the money flow worldwide

• While there appear to be hundreds of competing brands on the market, like Russian nesting dolls, lar…