Meet BlackRock, The New Great Vampire Squid BlackRock is a global financial giant with customers in 100 countries and its tentacles in major asset classes all over the world; and it now manages the spigots to trillions of bailout dollars from the Federal Reserve. The fate of a large portion of the country’s corporations has been put in the hands of a megalithic private entity with the private capitalist mandate to make as much money as possible for its owners and investors; and that is what it has proceeded to do. by Ellen Brown https://earthnewspaper.com/index.php/2020/07/03/meet-blackrock-the-new-great-vampire-squid-by-ellen-brown