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BlackRock, PPP, Infrastructure, Public Banks and Pension Funds

The story below is a case study about California’s public private partnerships.  The public private partnership is evident here in Australia where governments borrow money through private investors or the investors have an arrangement where the money they lend becomes some form of income. It is stated below that these arrangements are expensive, inefficient… Continue reading

BlackRock World’s Biggest Asset Manager – A Shadow or Footprint?

I’ve been reading some of the jargon about BlackRock as a Shadow company.  I also read at the end of this Wikipedia overview that a fake letter was circulated about BlackRock Divesting from Fossil Fuels and consequences if clients didn’t adhere to the Paris Agreement.  They had to publicly state they weren’t doing… Continue reading

BlackRock Investing in Growth Is this Sustainable?

I contemplate where markets allocate resources and assets and how the signals are about economic wellbeing not social wellbeing.  It is a major problem as vital resources are pumped into pursuits that serve self interest not global interests given the serious problems humanity is facing. 
 
When I hear of the good they do and… Continue reading

JPMorgan Caused 2008 Global Financial Crisis

 

This is a key quote and to be honest I am not impressed by the preferential treatment of those with money.  It speaks of a day of reckoning, I reacon that will happen across the Boards.

Why should those without money be criminalised and those without just pay a fine.  How do… Continue reading

Courts, False Confessions and Innocent People Convicted

The corruption in courts is very serious.  Issues of forcing false confessions, police looking for someone to blame and those in the criminal justice system above the law and not willing to be accountable for their actions.

I related to this documentary by Four Corners, I have experienced it personally.  I was not… Continue reading

Google Staff Protest Sexual Harassment and Lobbying Washington

I was noticing Google monitoring my blogs and found myself guided to this article.  How can Alphabet (Google’s parent) be placed in a position of power when they do not respect equality, democracy and ethics.

I was impressed to learn of Google staff protesting as they hold their company to account for sexual harassment… Continue reading

Mohandas Gandhi

“If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children.”

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