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How Wall Street buys US elections: Blackstone funds Trump, BlackRock backs Biden

38 minutes Posted May 30, 2024 at 1:13 pm.

Wall Street always wins US elections

Blackstone CEO funds Trump

BlackRock backs Biden

BlackRock vs Blackstone What's the difference?

Wall Street's highest paid CEO, Stephen Schwarzman

Oil & gas industry moguls fund Trump

Fossil fuel profits tripled under Biden

Oligarchs back fellow billionaire Trump

Biden promised: "Nothing would fundamentally change"

10% of Americans own 93% of stocks & 67% of all wealth

USA is not a democracy; it's an oligarchy

Wall Street funded Barack Obama

Wall Street funded Mitt Romney

US government represents Wall Street

BlackRock veterans run Biden's Treasury

Goldman Sachs veterans ran Trump's Treasury

Blackstone: the largest landlord in the US (& on Earth)

De-industrialization & financialization

Private equity destroyed Toys“R”Us

Private equity firms buy up retirement homes, hospitals, vets

2008 crisis & subprime mortgages

Financial parasites

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While BlackRock veterans run Joe Biden's Treasury, Donald Trump's presidential campaign is financed by Wall Street's highest-paid CEO, of Blackstone, the world's largest commercial landlord. Ben Norton explains how Wall Street investment companies, asset managers, and banks essentially buy US elections.

VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=ZJaJ4BST6Nc

Check out our related video - "How the dollar's 'exorbitant privilege' enriches the USA (and global elites)": https://youtube.com/watch?v=jYkiMcR1Rj8

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