For those that don't like reading a wall of text, here's the TLDR:  

• Wall Street uses money from stocks that regular people have invested in the stock market to hold the 99% down while propping up the 1%.  That allows Wall Street to control the media, create division, and hand pick politicians who enforce and create laws that enable Wall Street to widen the wealth gap.  The current system is a feedback loop where the more Wall Street takes from you, the more they can fund their ability to take more and more. There is a solution, however, and that's by having the American public remove their stocks out of Wall Street's name, and put them in their own.  This can be done with just a single phone call to your broker (or advisor), but that secret is so well hidden that no one knows about it  nor what it's called.  It's called the Direct Registration System (DRS), and by registering your stocks in your own name, we can restore the American dream and take back what is rightfully ours from the system that has held us down for decades.          ~  DeOccupyWallSt.com

Congratulations, you made it to this page.  That allows me to share my passion with you – to inform the  global public about Wall Street’s big secret.  This secret is so powerful, it  has the ability to remove Wall Street’s grasp on America, and  ultimately, OUR way of life.  This secret has the ability to hand the power back to regular people, like you and me, who have been getting  screwed by “the system” for decades. 

The truth is that Wall  Street controls the American politicians, and American politicians control our laws.  It’s those laws that prop up the 1% while holding  down the 99% at the same time.  When you place your focus on the politicians, you’re still one layer removed from the ultimate  influence.  That influence is Wall Street. Where Wall Street gets their  power isn’t a secret, it’s MONEY.  Where they get their money, however,  is “the big secret”. The short version:  When regular people buy stock,  Wall Street still owns it. THEY legally own YOUR assets.  I recommend  reading on, as the long version is quite a bit longer.

Before going on, I want to mention that this page is going to read a  lot like a cheesy infomercial.  Even crazier is that when you  get to the bottom, there is nothing I’m selling.  Similar to advising a  friend to pay off debt rather than spending money on something  frivolous, my intentions are genuine.  I care about people.  If I can  help you, it will indirectly help everyone else (ie: the 99%).

Now that I got that out of the way, in hindsight, “Occupy Wall  Street” didn’t work. The movement that spread global awareness starting  in 2011 was ultimately abandoned in defeat.   Over a decade later, we’ve  seen the complete opposite result from what the movement attempted to  change.

1)    We have an increase in influence that Wall Street has on politics.

2)    We have more income and wealth inequality.

3)    We have more consumer debt (such as student loan debt, medical debt, credit card debt, etc.).

So, what went wrong?  I’ll tell you.  Occupy Wall Street attempted to  change Wall Street from the OUTSIDE.  It was like trying to stop a train with picket signs. The best way to stop a train long term is by  removing its fuel.  Wall Street’s fuel is YOUR assets that they’ve convinced you to hold in THEIR name. 

To defeat the influence that Wall  Street has on politics and income inequality, you must “change the  system” by removing the money (and power) from the system.  You have to change Wall Street’s influence from the INSIDE. Wall Street only speaks  one language – MONEY.  What I’m about to tell you removes YOUR assets  from THEIR grubby hands without having to sell your stocks.

Before talking about how the trick of ownership works, you need to  understand two crucial concepts which create Wall Street’s nearly  infinite money and power.  First, you need to understand the relationship that supply/demand has on an asset’s price.  Second, you need to understand how fractional reserve banking  can provide infinite resources for those holding your assets.  Without  the fundamental understanding of these two concepts, what I’m about to  tell you will never completely make sense – but soon, it will.   You  need to know that changing the “legal title holder” of hundreds of  dollars of assets (from Wall Street to you) can have the impact of  removing thousands or tens of thousands of dollars from the system that  they use to prop themselves up while pushing you down.  The relationship isn’t linear, and that’s important because it means that one person can  have an exponential impact by changing ownership of their limited assets.

Let’s start with a basic example of supply and demand. If you’re under 30, you’re probably aware that the diamond market is a complete “scam”.  Diamonds  aren’t rare.  They’re just slowly released into the market so that at  all times they appear rare.  By artificially limiting the supply, the  price is manipulated upward.  The same is true in the opposite direction.  If every diamond were released into the market at once, the  price would collapse.  This supply/demand dynamic is also true for  securities (stocks) traded on Wall Street.  When your stocks are held in  THEIR name, they can use “their” assets to increase or decrease supply  to “game the system”.  If your stocks are in your own name, however,  they can no longer loan them. This would help contribute towards true  price discovery and remove the artificial demand created by people on  Wall Street.  This is important because it means that stock prices are  more affected by true demand rather than artificially manipulated  demand.  This would remove their ability to use your own assets to hurt you.  The truth is that when your stocks are held in THEIR name, the  holder may loan your stocks which increases the supply, pushing price downward.  The very asset you want to go up,  the holder gets paid to loan it (to someone else) who wants to push the  price down.  This is known as “securities lending” which is just a fancy  way of saying “they get paid to loan your assets”.  At the same time, they don’t have to disclose that they’re doing it.

Next, we need to talk about fractional reserve banking.  Not many  people know this but before March of 2020, if you deposited $1000 into  the bank, banks could loan $900 to someone else.  The Federal Reserve  (central bank of the United States) sets the reserve requirement. Banks had to hold 10% of deposits as a  “reserve”.  From that $900, they could loan $810 to someone else, and  from that $810, they could loan $729 to someone else.  The end result is  that if you deposited $1000 into the bank, they could hypothetically turn your loan into about $9000 of loans.  Crazy,  huh?  At 7% interest rate, banks didn’t just make $70/year on your  $1000, they could hypothetically make as much as $630/year in interest  from your initial deposit of $1000. 

That needs to be changed, right?  I mentioned 2020 – that means the  system is different now right?  Yes, but not the way you might hope.  In  2020 during Covid (when no one was paying attention), the reserve rate went to ZERO.  That’s  right.  Banks no longer have to hold a reserve on YOUR money.  They can  lend it ALL.  If you deposit $1000, the bank can loan the full  $1000.  Hypothetically this creates an infinite amount of new interest  revenue because a $1000 deposit can create a $1000 loan and that $1000  can create another $1000 loan.  The new system creates hypothetical  infinite loanable money, and as a result, that can create infinite  risk.  This is known as “rehypothecation” and the same is true for your  stocks that are held in someone else’s name.  As long as your stocks are  not in your name, they can be used to create infinite supply.  As  stated before, infinite supply pushes price down.  The very assets you want to go up can be pushed down as long as you hold your stocks in someone else’s name.

Before going on, I want to briefly mention “inflation”.  Unless  you’ve been living under a rock, you’ve noticed that everything is  getting more expensive.  Not just a little more, but everything has  gotten much more expensive.  As mentioned earlier, if you inflate the  supply of an asset, it makes the value of that asset lower.  What effect  do you think that lowering the reserve rate for banks to zero had on  the value of the dollar?   You guessed it, by creating this new infinite  money glitch, the banks have more money to loan.  That means the value  of your dollar is less than it was, which means everything you buy  becomes more expensive.  They then spend their newfound money to push  mainstream “news” that it’s mostly due to “supply chain issues”.  At the  same time, they fail to mention that the Federal Reserve created an  infinite money glitch for themselves.  Sounds risky right?  You bet it is.  How  is it that more larger banks are collapsing in 2022 than 2008 even with  their new money?  I haven’t heard much about that?  I’ll save that  story for another day, but the bottom line is that when risk is allowed  to increase, the inevitable collapse will have increased as well.

Now that you understand how supply can be manipulated and how stocks  can be rehypothecated, you need to understand who’s doing it, and you  need to understand how you can remove your stocks from the system so they can no longer be used against you. If you own stocks through a broker (like Fidelity or Robinhood), you actually don’t own stocks, you own IOU’s.  Technically  they’re called “entitlements” and you’re known as what’s called a  “beneficial owner of entitlement shares”.  The irony of all this is that  your broker doesn’t own them either.  They own IOU “entitlement shares  as a beneficial owner” as well.  So, who owns the stocks?  Nearly all stocks are legally owned by a single entity you’ve never heard of  named Cede & Co.  

Wait what?  How can that be?  Yes, it’s true.  Not  only is Cede & Co. purposely hidden from public knowledge, it’s conveniently located in (you guessed it), lower Manhattan.  Wait, when I Google “Cede & Co.” (who  owns nearly all stocks), why doesn’t it pull up their address and info  on it?   Congratulations my young Padawan, you’re now aware that what  I’m telling you is actually “the big secret”.  It’s the big secret  because it’s MASSIVE and it’s completely HIDDEN in broad daylight.

Secrets like this don’t require “secret meetings”.  As the comical  genius George Carlin once said, “When everyone’s goals are aligned, you  don’t have to have secret meetings”.  Your brokers goals are aligned  with Cede & Co.’s goals.  They don’t have to “collaborate” or “conspire”.  What benefits one benefits the  other.  Your broker is WELL TRAINED to convince you (if you start to ask questions) that this 2-layer IOU structure is “for your best interest”  but don’t kid yourself.  They use words like “convenience”, “liquidity”,  and “SIPC insured” (among other things).  The reality is that when you  hold stocks through a broker, the company that you own doesn’t know who  you are. If you love Coke or Disney and hold shares through a broker,  those companies don’t know your name, AND they legally are NOT allowed to communicate with you  directly. If you aren’t the owner, “the system” doesn’t allow for them to know who you are.  Their inability to talk to you protects the  brokers, Cede & Co, and “the system” (NOT YOU), and unfortunately not the companies you’re buying either.

The truth is that lacking the ability to communicate directly with a  company you’ve bought from can cause a lot of problems and unnecessary  risk.  Anyone that’s booked a flight through Kayak.com (rather than the airline itself) and had to reschedule their flight knows how “buying and holding through a middleman” can blow up in  your face.  Moving your stocks to your own name would be like buying  through Kayak and moving your reservation to the airline itself.  Oddly  enough (humor), they don’t allow this. Hypothetically, however, if they  did, and there was a problem, you would now deal directly with the  airline.  If anything happened to Kayak, that would no longer negatively  affect you.  The same is true with stocks.  When you own your own  stocks, they are not at risk from a middleman defaulting.  Your relationship is directly  with the company. 

So, now that you sort of understand that the system  can screw you with your own money, and that you own nothing but IOUs,  and that you don’t have a direct relationship with the companies you  love, how can you change that?  How do you change the ownership structure, and put your own stocks in your own name?  The truth is that  no one that works in finance wants you to know what I’m about to tell  you, and that’s because if you put your stocks in your own name, they can no longer use “their” stocks to fuel their oppressive train against  you.  They lose the money that your stocks provide them.  They lose  their power. 

Ok, I’m finally ready to tell you “THE BIG SECRET”.  It’s the “Direct  Registration System”.  It’s usually referred to specifically as DRS.  That’s it.  3 simple letters.   D.   R.   S.

The Direct Registration System moves shares of U.S. Public Companies  out of Cede & Co, and into the names of individual investors on the  company’s records. Anyone can do it, and all American brokers (sans Robinhood) provide it.  When you directly register your stocks, you now officially  own them.  You don’t need insurance on them because they are no longer  owned by a middleman that can default.  Your relationship is now  DIRECTLY with the company because you are now the legal title holder of  your stocks. 

Want proof?  Check this out.  Stockholder  lists are usually kept very hidden and private, but this list was made  public due to a bankruptcy protection filing.  Notice how on page 8,  Cede & Co. OWNS 776 million shares BUT how approximately 2500  individual investor’s names like you and me own just 5 million?   That’s over  99% ownership by Cede & Co.  The 99% own less than 1%.  That’s not  because people like you and I only own 1%, it’s because most people like  you and I are listed as part of the Cede & Co. ownership shares because they’ve been convinced to hold “their” shares that way in Cede’s  name through their broker.

So, which companies actually encourage DRS?  According to the pizza chain Papa John’s, “We  believe DRS is the safest and most convenient way to hold your PZZA  shares of stock.”  Yes, DRS is so well hidden that the best and ONLY  example I could find regarding an American public company encouraging  DRS was a mediocre pizza chain.  I take that back, the best example I  could find is a BRAVE pizza chain.  Thank you, Papa Johns.  I’m sure  you’ll be getting a phone call from Cede & Co. (soon), and that  I’ll have to revise the link above to an archived copy of your FAQ  page.  Think I’m kidding?  I can’t even begin to tell you how much of my  own DRS content has been suppressed and deleted.  Literally hundreds (possibly thousands) of hours of my content have been deleted from the internet.  Thank goodness though as that inspired me to write what  you’re reading.

You know who does NOT encourage DRS?   Billionaires.  Freaking  billionaires.  Did you know that directly registered stocks cannot be  sold short?  Did you know that the world’s wealthiest man claims to hate short sellers?   Looky here, I just solved Elon Musk’s most elusive problem.  Someone  please tweet this at him.  All kidding aside, there are two possible  reasons why he hasn’t spoken about up about DRS.  Either DRS is so well  hidden that the wealthiest man in the world doesn’t know what it is  (even though he claims to hate the very thing that DRS would eliminate).  OR…. Not mentioning DRS protects the very system that  benefits him while hurting you.

Looking for some more confirmation bias?  Do you want to hear  something crazy that may begin to help you realize what I’m saying is actually true?   DRS is so well hidden that the Wikipedia page for “Direct Registration System”  is “accidentally” mislabeled as “Direct Holding System”.  There are  many direct holding systems (DRS being just one of them), yet all the  content is mislabeled under the wrong title header.  You won’t find a  Wikipedia page for “DRS” because it’s mislabeled as “DHS”.

Ok, back on topic, so how do you DRS?  How do YOU, as an investor,  DRS your own stocks?  It’s really simple actually.   Call your broker  and tell them you want to DRS.  That’s it.  If you hate making phone  calls like me, there’s an insanely informative resource page how to DRS from any broker.  Most  of the guides do not require making a phone call.  I buy stocks through  5 brokers.  The most "DRS friendly" brokers I’ve found currently are Fidelity and Vanguard.

Now that you know how to buy and transfer, how do you sell?  Again,  it’s not difficult either.  You can either transfer back to your broker  to sell, or you can sell directly from most transfer agents.  Don’t let  your broker try and convince you to hold your assets in their name because “selling is harder”.  Learn the facts. 

So, why  don’t more people know about DRS?   The main reason “no one knows about DRS” is because all the money in the market is spent protecting “the  system” by keeping it the way it is.  The money is spent by the oppressors to benefit the oppressors.  The 1% are dominating the  99%.  Their money is spent hiding DRS from you.  It is also “allegedly” spent deleting and hiding my pro DRS content as well.  As  mentioned before, I’ve had hundreds of hours worth of “pro DRS content” removed from centralized platforms. The bottom line is that it takes a  “mad lad” like me to spend his own time and money getting this information to you.  I’m spending my own time and money trying to help  you with nothing to gain financially.  Do banks spend time and money  advertising how to withdraw your money from banks?   No, they spend all  their money trying to get you to open new accounts and credit  cards.  DRS is the same.  Want some proof?  Looky here, another big 6 big bank fined for…….you guessed it, stealing from you to benefit themselves.  Are you starting to notice a pattern?

So “what can you do”?   Where do you go from here?   Educate yourself about DRS.  Find out if it’s right for you.  Find out if it’s right for every long-term investor you know.  

What if I don’t own stocks?  Do you need to own stocks to help spread  the good word about DRS?   Absolutely not.   “Click here” to find out more about what you can do to help.  Tell  your mom and dad about it.  Tell your crazy uncle about it.  Tell ANYONE who will listen.  Tell anyone who no longer believes that “the system” is working for the people. 

If you made it this far – you now FINALLY have information which was  hidden from you in plain sight for decades. You are now informed and  have the information needed to finally become a stock OWNER.

In conclusion, Wall Street owns the vast majority of publicly traded  stocks and uses them to create a cycle of lending in order to grow  faster and become more resilient with every passing day.  Regular  people, however, still have an option.  Remove the fuel from the oppressive train that has held US down for decades.  

According to Gary Gensler (the current head of the SEC), “I think the American public kind of gets it that the system is not fully working for them.”   Another way that someone like me might rephrase that, “the 99% gets it that the system is working AGAINST them”. 

De-occupy your stocks from Wall Street and help make the system work  for US again.  Together we can bring balance to the system and restore  the American dream.