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...
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How BlackRock Conquered the World – Part 2: Going Direct
by Corbett | Nov 20, 2022 | Newsletter
If you read Part 1 of the How BlackRock Conquered the World series, you will know how BlackRock went from an obscure investment firm in the 1980s to one of the most powerful asset managers in the world after the Global Financial Crisis of 2007—2008. You will also know...
How BlackRock Conquered the World — Part 1: A Brief History of BlackRock
by Corbett | Nov 13, 2022 | Newsletter
Let's play a little game. Let's imagine you're Joe Q. Normie and you need to run out for some groceries. You hop in the car and head to the store. What store do you go to? Why, Walmart, of course! And, being an unwitting victim of the sugar conspiracy, what do you buy...
November Open Thread 2022
by Corbett | Nov 7, 2022 | Articles
Alright, you know the drill by now (or maybe you don't!): it's the first weekend of the month, so it's time to open the monthly open thread. Do you want to discuss the latest news from around the world? Hankering for a lively discussion about philosophy or history or...
Schrödinger’s Bomb: False Flags Over Ukraine
by Corbett | Oct 30, 2022 | Newsletter
Remember way back in January of this year when I predicted that geopolitical strife—"the element of the global calculation that has been excluded from the equation" during the scamdemic—would "come back with a vengeance" in 2022? Well, if the Russian invasion of...
How Palantir Conquered the World
by Corbett | Oct 24, 2022 | Newsletter
Imagine a company that knows everything about everyone. A company that is equally at ease helping banks identify fraud as it is helping intelligence agencies track down enemies of the state. A company that can combine pictures of you with your cell phone location...
What Is Programmable Money?
by Corbett | Oct 16, 2022 | Newsletter
There are 3 types of people in this world. There are those who read that SWIFT has "solve[d] the significant challenge of interoperability in cross-border transactions by bridging between different distributed ledger technology (DLT) networks and existing payment...
The Story of the Century Just Broke (And No One Noticed)
by Corbett | Oct 10, 2022 | Newsletter
If you're a good, credulous consumer of the lamestream media, you likely take it as a given that Russian hackers present the greatest danger to the human species in the history of our planet. Or is that Chinese hackers? Or maybe North Koreans? Meh, whatever. Details,...