Is the Blackrock conspiracy real?

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Published 2023-11-03
BlackRock allegedly owns and controls the world. But the investment giant claims they are just impartial shareholders. What is really going on?
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According to popular theories on social media BlackRock owns almost all of the biggest corporations around the world. They own the big tech, big pharma, big everything AND the mainstream media. This insinuates their hidden influence and secret agenda they supposedly enforce on the corporate world.

BlackRock is is indeed among the largest shareholders in the biggest corporations across all sectors of the economy. This isn't hidden information. Anyone can pull this up from publicly available sources. But the catch is that BlackRock doesn't legally own anything. The $10,000,000,000 in assets they have are under management on behalf of their clients.

The issue of BlackRock's power and influence has been well studied and analyzed by economists for years. It isn't just about raw numbers on the ownership list of big corporations.
Economists found that many major problems that plague our economy today can be directly attributed to the concentration of economic power by BlackRock and the like. Stagnation in innovation, rise of consumer prices, decreasing wealth of the working class, even income inequality.

There is no need to believe in conspiracy theories. Rational explanation is bad enough.

Sources (references available in the transcript)

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All Comments (21)
  • @supaflylob
    he debunked the conspiracy theory by confirming it
  • @solgato5186
    There's no such thing as "impartial shareholders"
  • @Doomroar
    So the conspiracy is pretty much real, but in a different way, and we are on the brink of an economic bubble that is about to burst, despite the fact that we are also in the middle of a depression
  • @LSK2K
    They don't own them on paper, but they definitely influence them with ESG scores. It's like when a trainer awards a seal for exhibiting the behavior the trainer desires to achieve. You are definitely NOT the hated one.
  • @POWned911
    This video is such a limited hangout and the first video of this channel that actually makes me cringe of how many important details it misses. It doesn't mention Blackrock's involvement with iShares, Aladdin nor AI Labs, their involvement with "Going Direct" in 2019, nor their CEO's leading involvement into the subprime mortgage industry with CMO and subsequent efforts untangling the mess of 2008. Cmon, I expected better of you.
  • @Plutonia001
    ESG ratings are pretty creepy though. It's a database that's accessible to anyone with basic government credentials. There's a big list of all the public corporations that ESG is tracking, with scores based on compliance, literal yellow, orange and red marks of "controversies", and listings of specific ideological stances on various issues for each corporation. All of that information is being used for something.
  • @Zex-4729
    Guys, for real wtf, he is being sarcastic and I know the title is bait, but if you watched his channel you know he needs views without resorting to sponsorship, this is how he does it.
  • @_uncredited
    Technically, it's not a conspiracy if your CEO openly talks about their agenda in plain sight, I guess. I'm not sure what the point of this video was. Perhaps I'm just overthinking tedious clickbait.
  • @stephenw2045
    He isnt debunking it. Use your brains, censors are strong these days.
  • @legiran9564
    Whose conspiracy theory did you debunk here exactly? 🤣
  • @troysright
    Not own !!! Have controlling interest !
  • @TheMarlz2
    okay guys, pack it up, they don’t literally own every business they’re just majority shareholders with power over company management, nothing to see here… Is this an out of season April Fools joke, THO?
  • @OGPatriot03
    Everyone at the top of these financial institutions have 1 political bias, and influence in this way is MORE important to them than money as we can clearly see.
  • @snake2608
    "This conspiracy theory is false, so that's why I'm proving it with rational analysis." Since when did Snopes hire you as a writer? 😁