As long as the US dollar remains the world reserve currency then the status quo will remain in place....
From the period between December 2007 and June 2010, the Federal Reserve had secretly bailed out many of the world's banks, corporations, and governments. The price tag SIXTEEN TRILLON!
That's right boys and girls and keep in mind the supposed US Debt Clock shows our debt to be rocking over 17.9 Trillion now:
http://www.usadebtclock.com/ Any who, the list of institutions that received the most money from the Federal Reserve can be found on page 131 of the GAO Audit and are as follows i.e. the usual suspects:
Citigroup: $2.5 trillion ($2,500,000,000,000)
Morgan Stanley: $2.04 trillion ($2,040,000,000,000)
Merrill Lynch: $1.949 trillion ($1,949,000,000,000)
Bank of America: $1.344 trillion ($1,344,000,000,000)
Barclays PLC (United Kingdom): $868 billion ($868,000,000,000)
Bear Sterns: $853 billion ($853,000,000,000)
Goldman Sachs: $814 billion ($814,000,000,000)
Royal Bank of Scotland (UK): $541 billion ($541,000,000,000)
JP Morgan Chase: $391 billion ($391,000,000,000)
Deutsche Bank (Germany): $354 billion ($354,000,000,000)
UBS (Switzerland): $287 billion ($287,000,000,000)
Credit Suisse (Switzerland): $262 billion ($262,000,000,000)
Lehman Brothers: $183 billion ($183,000,000,000)
Bank of Scotland (United Kingdom): $181 billion ($181,000,000,000)
BNP Paribas (France): $175 billion ($175,000,000,000)
and many many more including banks in Belgium of all places
Oh yes, Belgium which just happens to be the same country has shown a 41 percent surge in ownership of U.S. bonds in the five months through May to $362.4 billion. Congratulation to Belgium who is now the third-largest foreign holder of US Treasuries! Belgium’s gross domestic product in 2013 was only $508 billion. Give me a frickin break!
If you are really bored you can view the 266-page GAO audit of the Federal Reserve (July 21st, 2011) here:
http://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-11-696Keep in mind those audit figure stopped in 2010 and as you know everything in the world has just run so smoothly every since...
No one else could possibly have their hand in the cookie jar!