qui bono? try to remember Biden/Harris are Wall St’s team:
7 Jan: Philadelphia Inquirer: Business leaders denounce the Capitol attack and some blame Trump
by Joseph N. DeStefano
Pennsylvania business leaders joined national business leaders and some Wall Street CEOs in blaming President Trump for the mob attack on the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday...
The Business Roundtable, a Washington organization composed of the top executives of many of the nation’s largest companies, also issued a statement critical of the mob action.
“The chaos unfolding in the nation’s capital is the result of unlawful efforts to overturn the legitimate results of a democratic election,” it read. “The country deserves better.” Along with ***COMCAST’S Roberts and ***VANGUARD’S Buckley, members of the group include Jeff Bezos of ***AMAZON, Tim Cook of ***APPLEA, Mary Barra of General Motors, Edward L. Breen of DuPont, and Alex Gorsky, of Johnson & Johnson...
Larry Fink, chief executive of ***BLACKROCK, the largest U.S. private money manager, with local operations in Wilmington and Princeton, called the Capitol attack “an assault on our nation, our democracy, and the will of the American people.”...
Two of the Philadelphia region’s biggest corporate leaders — the heads of Comcast and Vanguard — joined other business leaders nationwide on Thursday in condemning the mob attempt to take over the U.S. Capitol.
In a message to employees, Comcast chief executive and chairman Brian L. Roberts said he “watched with deep sadness and alarm yesterday as chaos and lawlessness unfolded at the United States Capitol.”
Democratic values “must be upheld,” he added, “and I hope that we can move forward together as a nation to build a better future.”
Vanguard Group, issued a similar statement. “As a company, we condemn these acts of violence and any threat to our democratic process,” the company said, without mentioning the President...
Comcast, the cable TV giant that is among Philadelphia’s top employers, owns NBCUniversal, Cable Communications, Dreamworks Animation, Comcast Spectacor, and Sky Group in Europe, among other entities. President Donald Trump has routinely denounced the firm and the coverage of him by its news channels. Vanguard, based in Malvern in Chester County, manages $6 trillion in assets and is the world’s largest provider of mutual funds.
https://www.inquirer.com/business/phillydeals/trump-capitol-mob-dimon-business-roundtable-reaction-vanguard-comcast-20210107.html
8 Jan: Yuba.Net: President-elect Joe Biden and VP-elect Kamala Harris Announce Additional Members of the National Security Council
Yohannes Abraham, Chief of Staff and Executive Secretary
Yohannes Abraham currently serves as the Executive Director of the Biden-Harris Transition, overseeing preparation for the implementation of Biden-Harris policy, personnel, and management priorities...
During the Obama-Biden administration, Abraham served as Deputy Assistant to the President and Senior Advisor to the National Economic Council...
***Abraham has also served on the leadership team of the ***VANGUARD GROUP’S global investment unit and as a ***Senior Advisor at the Obama Foundation...ETC
https://yubanet.com/usa/president-elect-joe-biden-and-vp-elect-kamala-harris-announce-additional-members-of-the-national-security-council/
8 Jan: NY Post: Kamala Harris’ top economic advisor is another ***BLACKROCK exec
by Thornton McEnery
BlackRock is cementing its position as the Biden administration’s go-to Wall Street firm.
Vice-President-elect Kamala Harris on Friday said she’s selected BlackRock’s Global Chief Investment Strategist Mike Pyle as her chief economic advisor, making him the third high-profile member of Larry Fink’s $7.8 trillion financial empire to take a top job with the Biden White House.
In November, President-elect Joe Biden tapped BlackRock alums Brian Deese and Adewale “Wally” Adeyemo as head of the National Economic Council and deputy Treasury secretary, respectively.
Deese and Pyle, who will not require Senate confirmation, will be the first duo of the modern era to go from the same Wall Street firm to jobs as top economic advisors to the president and vice president of the United States.
Not even Goldman Sachs — famously mocked as “Government Sachs” for its roster of C-Suite executives who’ve moved into powerful DC roles — has managed that feat.
Pyle is the most senior of the three BlackRock execs to head to DC. Like Deese and Adeyemo, he was also a key aide in the Obama White House, where he was instrumental in that administration’s policies on health care reform and trade with China.
Deepening Pyle’s ties to the administration is the fact that he was once a law clerk for Biden’s Attorney General nominee, Merrick Garland...
https://nypost.com/2021/01/08/kamala-harris-top-economic-advisor-is-another-blackrock-exec/
23 Oct 2020: Investopedia: Top 5 Twitter Shareholders
Nearly 75% of all Twitter stock is owned not by individuals but by institutional investors who buy large stakes in companies for their clients. The names below shuffle places on the list from time to time, but the latest figures available, for mid-June 2019, place The ***VANGUARD GROUP, Inc. at the top of the heap of Twitter shareowners...
Vanguard’s stake in Twitter represents nearly 79 million shares. This constitutes just under 10% of all outstanding Twitter shares...
Morgan Stanley
Multinational financial services and investment company Morgan Stanley (MS) holds the second-largest stake in Twitter...
Morgan Stanley’s stake in Twitter amounts to roughly 46 million shares, representing 5.8% of outstanding shares...
***BLACKROCK Fund Advisors Inc.
The second-largest shareholder of Twitter is the global investment manager BlackRock Inc. (BLK)... It currently owns 37.2 million shares of Twitter. This stake accounts for roughly 4.7% of all outstanding shares...ETC
https://www.investopedia.com/articles/insights/060916/top-3-twitter-shareholders-twtr.asp
9 Dec 2020: Investopedia: Top 5 Shareholders of Facebook
Mark Zuckerberg
Zuckerberg is Facebook’s largest shareholder by far...
He currently holds over 400 million shares of Facebook, comprising a market value of around $82.2 billion...
He controls 57.9% of the total voting shares, giving him effective control of the company...
***Vanguard Group Inc.
Vanguard’s funds hold approximately 184.0 million shares of Facebook with a combined market value of about $37.7 billion...
***BlackRock Inc.
BlackRock’s funds hold about 158.2 million shares of Facebook with a combined market value of $32.3 billion...
https://www.investopedia.com/articles/insights/082216/top-9-shareholders-facebook-fb.asp
1 Apr 2020: Investopedia: The Top 5 Alphabet (Google) Shareholders
***Vanguard Group, Inc.
Vanguard holds about 22.6 million Class C shares of Alphabet...
***BlackRock, Inc.
BlackRock holds approximately 20.0 million Class C shares of Alphabet...
https://www.investopedia.com/articles/markets/011516/top-5-google-shareholders-goog.asp