>>7817423

>Larry Fink. BlackRock.

Larry Fink predictions for 2019 on CNBC:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ACds3PkhiY

Larry Fink #28 on Forbes Powerful People list. A mere $5.4 Trillion in assets, at that time Jan 2019 (?)

"At the height of the [2008] disaster, when the American economy was on the brink, it was to Fink that Wall Street’s C.E.O.’s—including J. P. Morgan Chase’s Jamie Dimon, Morgan Stanley’s John Mack, and A.I.G.’s Robert Willumstad—turned for help and counsel. As did the U.S. Treasury and the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, whose top officials turned to Fink for advice on the financial markets and assistance on the $30 billion financing of the sale of Bear Stearns to J. P. Morgan, the $180 billion bailout of A.I.G., the $45 billion rescue of Citigroup, and those of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac at $112 billion and growing.

"Today, through an array of government contracts, BlackRock has effectively become the leading manager of Washington’s bailout of Wall Street. The firm oversees the $130 billion of toxic assets that the U.S. government took on as part of the Bear Stearns sale and the rescue of A.I.G.; it also monitors the balance sheets of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac—which together amount to some $5 trillion—and provides daily risk evaluations to the New York Fed on the $1.2 trillion worth of mortgage-backed securities it has purchased in an effort to jump-start the country’s housing market."

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2010/04/fink-201004

https://www.forbes.com/profile/larry-fink/#569ccfa720f4

>>7817400 (pb)

>remember the millenium sky was falling muhwindows stopping

>that was where CA got theor start with huge insider rip off deals from the govt to avert the "disaster"

Definitely a scam. A retired programmer told me they did it to ramp up sales…and that they knew nothing would happen.

I never upgraded anything. My accounting software flipped the dates correctly. No problem. No crash.

Years later I learned that people had been convinced some kind of major disaster was going to happen, stocked up on food, built underground hideouts and what not. Now I wonder if those fears were stoked by people who wanted to sell them those related things.