Backlash: BlackRock CEO says attacks on ESG investing are getting ugly and personal

By Jo Nova

Larry Fink, CEO of BlackRock. | Bloomberg

Two wins. BlackRock has agreed to Ron DeSantis’ demands that Florida’s state pension funds can’t be used for eco-activism fantasy quests (like ESG*). Now they have to be used to make profits for the people those funds belong to. That’s not much of a win you might think, since that’s just a return to “the world we thought we were living in”, but in the World of Absurd it’s popping a very important bubble. Possibly “the” most important bubble — the loose money driving the trainwreck of stupid investments and sabotage-like-boycotts.

Secondly — Larry Fink feels hurt. The glitter-wheels are falling off the climate fund-wagon. The CEO of BlackRock was running around the world acting like the third largest nation on Earth. He was waving ten trillion dollars of other people’s money and bossing people into joining his cult. That party is coming undone.

BlackRock are the financial Climate Police disguised as a Monster Investment Fund but the anti-woke movement is gaining ground:

BlackRock’s Fink says climate and ESG-investing attacks getting ugly, personal

By Rachel Koning Beals, MorningStar