Protesters storm BlackRock’s Paris office holding red flares and firing smoke bombs | CNN Business

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  1. If they had to choose any financial institution, BlackRock is the right one. All the stuff people used to say about Goldman Sachs political influence on countries, in 2023 is far more true of BlackRock than any other.

  2. I find it funny that I saw this on the trending spot in Reddit and all the subreddits its trending on is just anti-capitalist subreddit’s lol. Goes to show who the main supporters for this are.

  3. “BlackRock, the world’s largest asset manager, has played no part in the pension reforms. But workers targeted the company because of its work for private pension funds, according to protester Françoise Onic, a school teacher who spoke to Reuters.”

  4. I know that revolutionary socialism is basically illegal under anti-terrorism laws, but we wouldn’t have the European center-left tradition without the specter of revolution. Hopefully center-left policies can succeed outside of postwar European nation-state contexts.

  5. The CEO of BlackRock France, Jean-Francois Cirelli, is a close friend of Emmanuel Macron.

    He received the highest national medal, the legion d’honneur:

    https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/jorf/id/JORFTEXT000039726325

    Nobody knows why. What did he do? Save some drowning kid?

    Journalists also discovered the CEO of BlackRock France attended confidential meetings with Emmanuel Macron and Government ministers to prepare their pension reform. However, his name was deleted from public records and the public agendas of Macron and his Ministers :

    https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ELH_8LjXsAAZ5iZ?format=jpg&name=small

    Nothing shady here… CEOs and Politicians should just be trusted /s

  6. One of the more troubling things I read about the war in Ukraine was Larry Fink and Zelenskyy agreeing to a deal to coordinate the ‘rebuilding’ of Ukraine after the war. Pretty sure Blackrock is going to be more interested in acquiring more assets and owning as much of the land and resources as it can. Whatever is rebuilt will be rented to Ukrainians.

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