The Money Power

The Money Power, AKA money power, is a nickname for the financial "powers-that-be" who seem to increasingly control the world, or at least the most important economic parts of it.

They are the largest force behind the originally (and still ongoing) astroturfed American "Tea Party Movmement", but also, ironically, behind the Obama Administration.

First coined (and mostly used) during the late 19th century (1800s) "Greenback" and "Populist" agrarian/labor movements in the mostly rural Western/Southern United States, the concept was borrowed (even if the wording changed) by other, more nefarious factions such as anti-capitalist right-wing racists in subsequent decades (see right-wing populism).

Today, with the exception of cryptic quasi-racists/anti-Semites like Lyndon LaRouche and Pat Buchanan, the concept is most commonly found on the far, far left (as in anarchists), though it might be working its way (slowly) back into the labor/trade union movement.