The Post-Partisan Emporium

Part 1 can be found here .  Go here for Part 2.   How BlackRock Conquered the World — Part 3 Aladdin's Genie and the Future of the World The Corbett Report by James Corbett As those who have been following the  How BlackRock Conquered the World  series know by now, BlackRock, Inc. started out as an asset management subsidiary of investment giant The Blackstone Group, but quickly spun off into its own entity. It made its mark by emphasizing risk management for its clients, and by the time the Global Financial Crisis hit in 2008, BlackRock was perfectly positioned to take over Wall Street, helping to sort through the mess of toxic subprime mortgages that BlackRock CEO had helped pioneer decades before. And, as we saw last week, BlackRock leveraged this power to begin shaping the course of events. They proposed a radical new form of market intervention that central banks could use to pump money directly into the retail economy, and just weeks later the Federal Res...