They aren't even using other people's money primarily. Other people are too poor to give them the kind of money that they need. They use the Federal Reserve's money, which all money is Federal Reserve money. People invest in Black Rock, but they do it on account (leveraged investment). That is they take out loans to invest. That money ultimately comes from a bank even if it is a trading platform they are borrowing from because the trading platform likely has loans. But the banks are cash negative if we kept track. No one saves and yet they have money to provide everyone with a mortgage and lend to new business and support financial firms? That money comes as a "loan" from the federal reserve to help match their cash reserves to the amount they've lent. Any time they want to "borrow" (at negative real interest rate) from the fed they just lend out more, and the fed has to give them some cash as a result. And a huge amount of that money ends up flowing to BlackRock.
They aren't even using other people's money primarily. Other people are too poor to give them the kind of money that they need. They use the Federal Reserve's money, which all money is Federal Reserve money. People invest in Black Rock, but they do it on account (leveraged investment). That is they take out loans to invest. That money ultimately comes from a bank even if it is a trading platform they are borrowing from because the trading platform likely has loans. But the banks are cash negative if we kept track. No one saves and yet they have money to provide everyone with a mortgage and lend to new business and support financial firms? That money comes as a "loan" from the federal reserve to help match their cash reserves to the amount they've lent. Any time they want to "borrow" (at negative real interest rate) from the fed they just lend out more, and the fed has to give them some cash as a result. And a huge amount of that money ends up flowing to BlackRock.
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