A recent paper he cowrote, in which he proposes limiting the companies an index fund can own in one industry, caught our attention, and we wanted to learn more. We have enabled email notificationsyou will now receive an email if you receive a reply to your comment, there is an update to a comment thread you follow or if a user you follow comments. Together, BlackRock and Vanguard own 18% of Fox, 16% of CBS, 13% of Comast which owns NBC, MSNBC, CNBC, and the Sky media group, 12% of CNN, and 12% of Disney which owns a number of subsidiaries. In turn, they, themselves are owned by shareholders and the most surprising thing is that they own each other's stocks. The power of these two companies is something we can barely imagine, Gielen says. These four Vanguard, Blackrock, State Street and Berkshire Hathaway are the four largest investment firms on the planet. As with the Forbes lists, the richest people are permanently hidden: they dont make any published lists. 4 Campbell, J.Y., Lettau, M., Malkiel, B.G., & Xu, Y. They only care who created it. Which is why I could be charmed by that one scene and ignore the rest. Traitors Among Us I know some will say, Oh, you are an artist, a man, and a throwback, so you think you can judge people by how they look. On that same page, we learn that Blackrocks top holdings arein this orderApple, Microsoft, Google, Amazon, JP Morgan Chase, Facebook, Johnson&Johnson, ExxonMobil, Berkshire Hathaway, Bank of America, Wells Fargo, Pfizer, Chevron, UnitedHealth, Proctor & Gamble, A.T.T, Verizon, Citigroup, VISA, Intel, Home Depot, Cisco, Comcast, DOW, Coca Cola, Pepsi, Boeing, Merck, Oracle, Disney, Philip Morris, MasterCard, McDonalds, GE, Walmart, 3M, IBM, Honeywell, TI, Invidia, Amgen, Union Pacific, Bristol Myers, Abbott, Lockheed Martin, Goldman Sachs, Adobe, Morgan Stanley, and about 4800 more major holdings! So, the managers just got to do whatever they wanted to, which is certainly not ideal. No, the only reason anyone cares about the Sistine Chapel is that it houses great paintings, and the artists who created them get all historical credit, the owners none. Moreover, BlackRock functions in an intensely oligopolistic environment. Presumably the defense would bring out one set of papers and plaintiffs would offer another set. It is Vanguard's oldest mutual fund and the nation's oldest balanced mutual fund, and it has been subadvised by Wellington Management since its inception in 1929. Posner: Right. A law professor at New York University, Rock says a variety of legal rules in fact discourage stakes above 10 per cent and he favors creating a safe harbor for holdings up to 15 per cent to incentivize shareholder engagement. And so goodness and health are two names for the same thing, and bad people make themselves uglier, day by day. And it probably is. I dont think thats a great thing. Are the gods worthy of esteem because they own the world? Because ownership of the world is pretty much meaningless, when you get right down to it. Have a question? That could inflate or depress the price of these securities versus similar un-indexed assets, which may create bubbles and volatile price movements. And if they can get the [vaccine] passports in with the CBDC [central bank digital currency], then it will be able to take taxes out of our accounts and take our assets. Oh yeah, Trump was sworn in as our newest fake President. The greater part of it doesnt cost anything, since it consists of doing the right thingwhich is free. But these Hollywood stars are also the most likely to lose the shine, for the same reason: they are from these families who exist on lies, stealing, and other wickedness. The courts generally are not in the position to try to look at the whole problem in all the markets and figure out a remedy. Technology Were interested in this back and forth between capital markets and government antitrust regulations. Posner: One thing I have been thinking about a lot since we worked on this paper and for the book is the relationship between corporate governance and the role of institutional investors. I know who Vanguard is. It is the wealthy selling themselves, as usual. Eric Posner: I was brought in by Glen Weyl, who is an economist at Microsoft Research. They are fund manager are they not? Were permanent long-term holders and, given that, we have the strongest interest in the best outcomes. Their size could also help companies change for the good. BlackRock Inc. and Vanguard Group already the worlds largest money managers are less than a decade from managing a total of US$20 trillion, according to Bloomberg News calculations. I dont even like any of the big companies or their products, so why would I want to own them? Vanguard and BlackRock, two mega, privately-owned corporations, possess the lion's share of the world's wealthiest companies. University of Chicago law professor Eric Posner proposes limiting the companies that large index fund providers can own in one industry. Ideally you want policymakers to take all of this into account. Vanguard and BlackRock own significant stakes in PLTR stock. These people didnt create the Earth so by what right should they own it? FDA Grants Full Approval of Modernas Spikevax COVID Vaccine Another Bait-and-Switch?, GOLD, INFLATION & CONFISCATIONQ&A with LYNETTE ZANG & ERIC GRIFFIN, Funny story: the Chinese want NOTHING to do with mRNA Covid vaccines. The effect isnt subtle. No matter what industry you look at, the top shareholders, and therefore decision makers, are the same: Vanguard, Blackrock, State Street and/or Berkshire Hathaway. BlackRock's assets under management, which had crossed the $10 trillion threshold in 2021, stood at $8.59 trillion at the end of December despite inflows into its funds during the fourth quarter. Markets never sleep, and neither does Bloomberg. Not only is Blackrock the biggest of them all, but it's also a major shareholder in the others. You can have a controlling share at this level, if you own the most share blocks.. You DOn't have to own 51%, just own more blocks then everyone else. But in some way and by some set of terms this has also been known for millennia. They will cede ownership of the Earth back to the Earth and get on with life as it was intended to be lived. So, Im not going to give you an easy answer here. I believe that the plaintiffs would have a strong case, and for that reason, its just a matter of time before somebody brings a lawsuit. How do we cut the head off the snake (Black Rock and Vanguard) In the process, they will own almost everything on planet Earth. Everything. They dont really need to own stock of 2,000 companies or 10,000 companies. An Empirical Exploration of Idiosyncratic Risk, The Journal of Finance, Vol. Restricting Ownership Moving on to remedies, the one you lean toward is restricting ownership to, say, one company within a concentrated industry, as opposed to spreading it out. Children and other innocents like Graham skate through in the eyes of the gods. So what does it all mean? 16M views. What's weird is that this post disappeared from the being able to find it browsing the sub and it doesn't show up when searching it. We may assume the Rockefellers and Rothschilds and the other usual suspects are being hidden, and maybe some others we dont even know about (like Stanleysor Spencer-Churchills). They have investment holdings in Google, YouTube, Facebook . Does anyone really care who owns the rights to the Beatles songs? In this documentary, Vanguard and Blackrock are exposed as the evil puppeteers of this global agenda. There is a general tendency of capital markets to become concentrated. We are told that Blackrock is owned by shareholders, and that Fink, the top shareholder, only owns about 1%. 6771SouthSilverHillDrive, FinlandMN55603, This material, provided for educational and informational purposes, constitutes a "fair use" of any copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the US Copyright Law. One of the differences between this and some of the big well-known antitrust cases in the past, where the beneficiaries of the anticompetitive behavior were the shareholders of one or a handful of companies, is that here the beneficiaries are the millions of individual investors who have truly benefited from the reduction in cost brought about by index funds. blackrocks master A.I. This gives them a complete . What this means: Please keep any "meta" discussion directed at specific users, mods, or r/conspiracy in general in this comment chain only. Those could be separate lawsuits. Can't win. Nature Now, the defense would hire their own experts who would have access to the same data, and they would do their own analysis of that data. 51%), so they don't "own" them. This is where it gets dark, Gielen says. After 40 centuries of failing at the game of life, they may finally learn the basic lesson. Find out about Morningstars In all, four parent companies produce the software used by virtually all computers, tablets and smartphones in the world. Vanguard and BlackRock are the top two owners of Time Warner, Comcast, Disney, and News Corp, four of the six media companies that control more than 90% of the U.S. media landscape. BlackRock and Vanguards dominance raises questions about competition and governance. All the ones i find seem to be missing the three big players. If they continued to be passive, as they claim they are now, there wouldnt be any anticompetitive effect. no. But on the other hand, the government forces them to, right? BlackRock has called Azars research vague and implausible while other academics have questioned his methodology. What is the argument against that approach? I can only access it with the direct link. If our rule were put into place, we would predict that the market would segment, and you would see the big institutions like BlackRock divest from all the firms in a concentrated industry except for one and increase the stake in that remaining firm. Unauthorized distribution, transmission or republication strictly prohibited. Given that there are papers from economists on both sides of this issue, how would that affect the legal process? BlackRock and Vanguard own everything! State Street Corporation is the fifth biggest shareholder, AppleThe top four institutional investors are Vanguard, Blackrock, Berkshire Hathaway and State Street Corporation, MicrosoftThe top three institutional shareholders are Vanguard, Blackrock and State Street Corporation. Posner: Yes, absolutely. Entertainment News Alphabet owns Google and all Google-related businesses, including YouTube and Gmail. Dow Jones Industrial Average, S&P 500, Nasdaq, and Morningstar Index (Market Barometer) quotes are real-time. Your soul shines through your face. It is too bad that there arent more people in the index-fund business.. Thats about 20 per cent owned by this oligopoly of three, Bogle said at a Nov. 28 appearance at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York. So, how does this scheme work? DID BLACKROCK/VANGUARD BUY THE ENTIRE WORLD? As shown in the film, three of the top four institutional shareholders of Coca-Cola are identical with that of Pepsi: Vanguard, Blackrock and State Street Corporation. Ownership is an empty term, coined by empty people. He may think he does, since he puts it in a gain pile and adds it to his total wealth. I would say, Have you got any better properties? Just kidding, but you know what I mean. I know that theres interest among European antitrust authorities. What is of bigger concern is the assests that they have 100 percent control of (real estate). The FAA has very quietly tacitly admitted that the EKGs of pilots are no longer normal. Because I am a law professor, I could provide some of the legal background and analysis to our paper. At the end of the day, it isnt what you own that is important, it is what you create. The elite who own Vanguard dont want anyone to know they are the owners of the most powerful company on earth. Still, if you dig deep enough, you can find clues as to who these owners are. They dont need some AI named to manipulate the stock market. While bigger may be better for the fund giants, passive funds may be blurring the inherent value of securities, implied in a companys earnings or cash flow. Blackrock and Vanguard do not own major portions of trucking companies, their clients money that are invested on behalf of the clients are the ones invested in the company. Is there enough evidence out there? 1 See, for example, Azar, J., Schmalz, M., & Tecu, I. Survival Please contact the moderators of this subreddit if you have any questions or concerns. Environmental Didnt see them on the diagram. Opinion This means that Vanguard is in the hands of the richest families on earth, Gielen says. Not everyone can see when eyes go dark, apparently. Some people are healthier or prettier to start with, and some will encounter tragedy that is in no way their fault. Furthermore, each of us knows this from birth. But there are a lot of financial companies Ive never heard of and that maybe Id be nervous about giving them my money. Yes, you have to take care of the body as well as the spirit, and they get some of that right. We also respect individual opinionsthey represent the unvarnished thinking of our people and exacting analysis of our research processes. These four media conglomerates own and control more than 90 percent of the United States media landscape, which explains why their collective coverage of world events all centers around the same propaganda. BlackRock Inc.andVanguard Group already the worlds largestmoney managers are less than a decade from managing a total of $20 trillion, according to Bloomberg News calculations. Just like the steel that the plane is made of comes from one of their many mining companies. But that isnt enough. I am telling them there is a solution to their problem, and it costs very little. We hope to challenge issues which have captured the publics imagination, from JFK and UFOs to 9/11. BlackRock, for example, has written about this. Rachel Evans, Sabrina Willmer, Nick Baker and Brandon Kochkodin, tap here to see other videos from our team. Since the mid-1970s, two corporations Vanguard and Blackrock have gobbled up most companies in the world, effectively destroying the competitive market on which America's strength has rested, leaving only false appearances behind. There are some papers that have been written that I just dont think are nearly as strong as the papers on our side. That said, I think this is a reasonable view. We wrote a paper together, and we wrote some op-eds. SGT Report is your daily source for truth in a time of universal deceit. Once we arrive at our destination, we go out to dinner and we write a review on Trip Advisor. Speaking of the central bankers, I recently interviewed finance guru Catherine Austin Fitts, and she believes its the central bankers that are at the heart of the global takeover were currently seeing. In this video we explore a topic that's become rather common in conspiracy circles, Vanguard's ownership of every public co. In fact, in our culture you have to be untaught basic morality. Theres even further to go if you look globally: Only 15 per cent of world equity markets including funds, separately managed accounts and holdings of individual securities are passively managed, said Joe Brennan, global head of Vanguards equity index group, in an interview. News PDF Which means they have an indirect "control" of these companies. Besides, if you study the real history of ownership, these people didnt buy anything. We should be concerned. I think they are giving money to researchers to write stuff that they hope will support their view. These companies are publicly traded and are run by boards, where the largest shareholders have power over the decision making. And if the CEOs think that the institutional investors will support them, even weakly, and if these institutional investors have large stakes in rival firms, then the worry is that theyre not going to compete as vigorously. You will say that shouldnt protect her, but I think it does. Palantir ( PLTR) CEO Alex Karp said that the company will hire "a couple hundred people" this year. Those gains in part reflect a bull market in stocks thats driven assets into investment products and may not continue. 2021 Jellyfish.NEWS | A Division of the John B. 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