Thanks to a RMN reader.

*******************

(Larry Fink & Trump)

“I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our moneyed corporations, which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength and to bid defiance to the laws of their country.”

~ Thomas Jefferson

Written by Bryan Lutz, Editor at Dollarcollapse.com

The corporate world is a fascinating one.

Contrast it with the political one and you can find a new, curious perspective.

Much of the political world pretends to own corporations, but in reality corporations tend to run the world.

Here’s how it works:

Governments like to regulate industries, make claims on natural resources, and force the ownership of certain operations.

But in the end, it is the corporations that are producing the work.

Governments do not produce.

However, there is one trick governments use to claim some part in the production of real things…

It is to claim ownership over the currency.

Once the government becomes the person defining trade and the value of a currency they have much more control over what private corporations can and cannot do.

They essentially make any demand they want because corporations must operate using their currency.

But things change if one of these two things happen:

Governments no longer control the currency

Corporations grow too big for governments to control

Imagine if corporations started buying gold and then they put that gold on their balance sheet.

Eventually, corporations would have a valid reason to start trading outside of the State currency.

And then there’s the other radical alternative…

Some corporations, Blackrock for example, are buying Bitcoin and other crypto to place it on their balance sheet.

Recently, BlackRock made some interesting changes to their portfolio buying up a lot of Bitcoin for themselves, and investing in their own iShares Bitcoin Trust ETF during Bitcoin’s latest dip.

BNN Bloomberg reports:

BlackRock Adds Its Bitcoin ETF to Model Portfolio for First Time

“The world’s biggest asset manager is finally allowing Bitcoin into its $150 billion model-portfolio universe.

BlackRock Inc. is adding a 1% to 2% allocation to the $48 billion iShares Bitcoin Trust ETF (ticker IBIT) in its target allocation portfolios that allow for alternatives, according to an investment outlook viewed by Bloomberg…

…The move by BlackRock comes as Bitcoin prices crater alongside stocks, with a toxic brew of economic concerns and trade tensions weighing on risk appetite.

The cryptocurrency is currently trading around $83,000, after reaching nearly $110,000 last month.

Bitcoin’s famed volatility is a core reason why the asset manager mapped out a 1% to 2% weighting as a “reasonable range” in a December paper from the BlackRock Investment Institute.

At the time it added that anything beyond 2% would sharply increase crypto’s share of overall portfolio risk.”

Only a few days later, Trump announces a “Strategic Crypto Reserve.”

And that launched Bitcoin back up another 10%.

That is not only a favor for American freedom (as marketed to the public)…

It is an effort on the US federal government’s part to control emerging currencies and therefore, the corporations that operate with them, but…

Who really benefits from Trump’s Strategic Crypto Reserve?

CNBC reports:

Trump announces strategic crypto reserve including bitcoin, Solana, XRP and more

“Cryptocurrencies rallied on Sunday after President Donald Trump announced the creation of a strategic crypto reserve for the United States that will include bitcoin and ether, as well as XRP, Solana’s SOL token and Cardano’s ADA.

“A U.S. Crypto Reserve will elevate this critical industry after years of corrupt attacks by the Biden Administration, which is why my Executive Order on Digital Assets directed the Presidential Working Group to move forward on a Crypto Strategic Reserve that includes XRP, SOL, and ADA,” he said in a post on Truth Social.

“I will make sure the U.S. is the Crypto Capital of the World.”

“And, obviously, BTC and ETH, as other valuable Cryptocurrencies, will be at the heart of the Reserve,” he said in a follow-up post. “I also love Bitcoin and Ethereum!”

XRP surged 33% after the announcement while the token tied to Solana jumped 25%. Cardano’s coin soared more than 60%.

Bitcoin rose 10% to $94,343.82, after dipping to a three-month low under $80,000 on Friday. Ether, which has suffered some of the biggest losses in crypto year-to-date, gained 13%.”

So who benefited from the Strategic Crypto Reserve the most?

Those corporations that hold Bitcoin, and other cryptos…

And those corporations that are also big enough to own a whole lot of real things.

For example, Larry Fink’s BlackRock, the world’s largest asset manager.

BlackRock’s power, wealth, and control continue to grow to staggering heights.

Here’s their most recent purchase…

Bloomberg reports:

BlackRock’s Ports Deal Marks New Reach, Hands Win to Trump

“BlackRock Inc. led one of the biggest acquisitions of the year in a deal that marked both the firm’s expanded reach in infrastructure and a win for US President Donald Trump, who had raised concerns over control of key ports near the Panama Canal.

The world’s biggest asset manager led a consortium that will buy a controlling stake in Panama ports that had become a political lightning rod and a larger unit that has operations across 23 countries.

CK Hutchison, the conglomerate founded by Hong Kong billionaire Li Ka-shing, said it would receive cash proceeds of more than $19 billion from the sale.

CK Hutchinson shares jumped as much as 25% in Hong Kong on Wednesday, the most in 27 years.

The deal is a major victory for Trump, who had argued that China had taken over the critical waterway, without providing evidence, and that the US was paying too much for the passage of ships.

He previously demanded the fees charged on US naval and merchant ships be lowered, or else Panama should return the canal to the US.”

Can you see now?

Trump’s “America First” policies and business like administrative style are putting corporations, especially BlackRock First.

If you’re still not seeing what’s happening here…

Bloomberg exposes:

Fink Phoned Trump Directly to Pitch BlackRock’s Panama Deal

“Donald Trump promised on Day 1 to seize the Panama Canal.

“We’re taking it back,” the US president declared in his inaugural address.

Within weeks, Wall Street billionaire Larry Fink was on the line with the White House.

His pitch: Fink’s investment company, BlackRock Inc., was interested in buying the ports on either side of waterway, shifting them into American hands, according to people familiar with the discussion. And with that, there would be no need to have the US take the century-old canal by force.

So went days of whirlwind negotiations that now are set to deliver control of those ports to a consortium led by BlackRock, the $11.6 trillion investment giant Fink has run for almost four decades.”