BlackRock: The Devil's Banker.

Show Notes

Clips

Episode Timestamp + Link | Clip Link

• 00:00:13 | The Bid: Larry Fink On The Power of Capitalism
• 00:01:03 | The Economic Club of Chicago: Laurence D. Fink, Founder, Chairman & CEO, BlackRock, 2/13/18
• 00:01:11 | CNBC Television: BlackRock CEO Larry Fink explains his decision to prioritize sustainability
• 00:01:40 | Fox Business: BlackRock CEO: America will win the economic war
• 00:05:35 | Pixies: Monkey Gone To Heaven
• 00:12:58 | Prince: 1999
• 00:13:16 | Frankie Laine and Jimmy Boyd: Tell Me a Story
• 00:17:34 | Scent of a Woman: I'm Just Getting Warmed Up
• 00:20:00 | Aladdin: Aladdin Meets Genie
• 00:20:14 | The Economic Club of Chicago: Laurence D. Fink, Founder, Chairman & CEO, BlackRock, 2/13/18
• 00:22:27 | Hamilton: The Room Where It Happens
• 00:22:53 | Pretty Sneaky Sis
• 00:25:29 | Spring Awakening: Totally Fucked
• 00:27:36 | Flight of the Conchords: Business Time
• 00:31:35 | Malcolm X: Too Much Power
• 00:46:49 | CNBC: BlackRock CEO Larry Fink: There's a need for more conscious capitalism
• 00:47:34 | The Godfather: Part 2: My Offer is Nothing
• 00:47:47 | The Office: That’s What She Said
• 00:49:29 | CNBC: Cramer's lightning round: BlackRock's a buy
• 00:49:44 | CNBC: How BlackRock Became The World's Largest Asset Manager
• 00:50:04 | CNBC: BlackRock CEO Larry Fink discusses latest earnings, post-Covid economy
• 00:50:14 | Sorelle Amore Finance: This company owns the world (and it's our fault) - BlackRock
• 00:50:24 | Fox Business: Arizona AG warns BlackRock to halt potential collusion
• 00:50:30 | BlackRock: Meet Joseph, Director of Development, Aladdin Product Group
• 01:09:41 | Mary Poppins: Fidelity Fiduciary Bank
• 01:11:15 | John Oliver: Fuck You All Forever
• 01:11:35 | Flight of the Conchords: Business Time

Resources

• Vanity Fair: Larry Fink’s $12 Trillion Shadow

• BlackRock: 2021 Annual Report

• Policy Tensor: Seeing Like BlackRock

• Insider: Here are 9 fascinating facts to know about BlackRock, the world’s largest asset manager

• Bloomberg: Biden Ties to BlackRock Deepen With Latest Treasury Hire

• Wall Street Journal: One Firm Getting What It Wants in Washington: BlackRock

• OpenSecrets: BlackRock Inc

• Office of Financial Research: Asset Management and Financial Stability, September 2013

• Bloomberg: In Fink We Trust: BlackRock Is Now ‘Fourth Branch of Government’

• BlackRock: Sustainable investing at BlackRock

• Banking On Climate Change: The Worst Banks Since the Paris Agreement

• The Bureau of Investigative Journalism: BlackRock Tells Oil Regulator: Ignore Our CEO’s Climate Pledges

• Florida State Board of Administration: August 23, 2022 Meeting

• Politico: Wall Street opens its checkbook for Ron DeSantis

• Sierra Club: Maine becomes the first state to pass law to divest from fossil fuels

• Morgan Stanley Institute For Sustainable Investing: Sustainable Reality

• BlackRock: BlackRock and housing: Setting the record straight

• The Atlantic: BlackRock Is Not Ruining the U.S. Housing Market

• Securities and Exchange Commission: Sallie Mae Proxy Statement

• Pensions & Investments: Nestle moves pension assets to BlackRock as it reorganizes internal management unit

• CNN Business: Nestle SA

• Investopedia: The Top 5 British Petroleum (BP) Shareholders

• CNN Business: Walmart Inc

• Fintel: BlackRock Inc. ownership in MCD / Mcdonald's Corp

• Bloomberg Markets and Finance: BlackRock CEO Larry Fink on Inflation, ESG Investing

• The New York Times: Patagonia Founder Gives Away the Company to Fight Climate Change

• Summer Lee

• Mandela Barnes

UNFTR Episode Resources

• Student Debt.

• The Problem with Conscious Capitalism.

• Modern Monetary Theory.

Book Love

• David Carey and John E. Morris: King of Capital: The Remarkable Rise, Fall, and Rise Again of Steve Schwarzman and Blackstone