• atomicpoet@lemmy.world
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      I mean, people obviously say things because they have an agenda.

      But let’s look at BlackRock specifically. When they said a recession was coming, we were at the absolute bottom of a stock market downturn. Isn’t that weird?

      If anyone listened BlackRock, they would have lost a lot of money.

      I’m not saying BlackRock knows where the market is going—they clearly don’t. I’m saying we need to be skeptical about big pronouncements regarding where things are going.

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        2 days ago

        If anything Blackrock knows exactly where things are going. They hold enough assets to drive the market any direction they want.

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          BlackRock is a manager of ETFs, almost all which involve passive investment funds. They’re not much different from Vanguard.

          Now if you don’t know what this means, I’ll break it down for you: BlackRock doesn’t know what’s going on, their funds just follow preset rules for underlying assets.

          And the reason they hold so many assets is because they’re passive in nature.