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[–] 19 points 6 months ago
[–] 8 points 6 months ago (1 child)

Blackstone owns the property, Blackrock does the financing.

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  • [–] 6 points 6 months ago* (2 children)

    So, BlackRock is kind of this Boogeyman for conspiracy theorists, because they actually own about 4 to 5% on average of a bunch of different stocks. So, yes, it's a $164Bn company that "owns everything" but no, they don't control jack fuckin shit.

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  • [–] [S] 12 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    They manage about $12,500,000,000,000 in assets. Choosing how to allocate that capital is still an insane amount of power.

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  • [–] 4 points 6 months ago

    Okay but they're clearly not "choosing how to allocate that capital" as any "insane amount of power" if they're just buying 5% of literally everything. They're basically just the physical embodiment of hedging bets works and that line goes up.

    When you search them up the two biggest controversies they've ever been involved with are:

    1. A false claim of them buying all the houses, with a helpful wikipedia page

    2. The fact that they settled a lawsuit started by conservatives who didn't like their "promote diversity" ESG policies

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