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How BlackRock became a sanctuary for clean-cut bankers and dormant politicians

17 November 2018

9:00 AM

17 November 2018

9:00 AM

A few months ago, an aggressive US pressure group called the Campaign for Accountability declared that it had a new target: the Wall Street behemoth BlackRock. Quickly, the American press picked up on this campaign against excessive corporate power. Soon we were reading about how BlackRock, like Goldman Sachs before it, ‘rules the world’.

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