Isn't it Blackstone and not blackrock that buys homes (and not that many)?
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According to the convincing argument by Gary Stevenson, so long as wealth inequality persists, assets are going to just get more expensive.
It's not collapsing, Jack.
I see, so we must collapse Blackrock first.
Just know that black rock has 9% or higher controlling share in almost all companies and they colluded with vanguard and another company I don't remember and all those 3 companies have 9% controlling shares in each others so they all 3 vote same in almost every thing
Just be aware that BlackRock is capitalism’s final boss.
They are the most well known private equity firm, but when I learned they are in the 40th place of how many assets they own and manage I was flabbergasted... Worth giving in some more time to understand what happened to the financial world in the past 25-30 years. https://www.visualcapitalist.com/worlds-50-largest-private-equity-firms/ . Personally I can't wrap my head around how much money this ultra rich club has.
Wait, they own the equivalent of 1/3 US yearly GDP?
Not only do BlackRock, Vanguard, and State Street own everything, they also own shares in each other. Antitrust is dead; it’s basically one big monopoly. These three firms own corporate America
They own most of these shares via their index funds, which do not give them controlling power on the companies
Very cool article!
As a millennial that was somehow able to afford a house this bubble needs to fucking pop.
I'll be locked into this house until I die and all of my friends and family will have to keep moving further away as they get priced out of their apartments each year. Before this I had moved 8 times in 6 years.
Also a millennial. Wife and I got our condo right before everything shot up, got a nice 3.25% APR. Great mortgage honestly. But we've been trying to sell our condo for a YEAR now and I honestly think it's the bubble holding back a sale. The condo is just too expensive for what it is (and the horrific rise of small community HOA fees has gotten way out of hand...). We're priced right compared to others on the market, but selling condos is just stupid hard right now.
Sure I'd love it if we could sell now and get some nice profits from the sale, but I absolutely agree this bubble needs to pop!
Complains that bubble needs to pop. Is trying to sell a condo but has it priced too high to attract any buyers. Doesn't lower price.
My dude, your desire for more money is the bubble that's holding back the sale.
Your scenario is a microcosm of the whole market.
I'm assuming they're looking to buy after this condo sale. If that's the case, they may not have much choice as their next place will be similarly insanely inflated, so they need that money to get the monthly payment to something affordable.
That's the position my partner and I are in. We have equity in our house, but it's mostly because it has "appreciated" to a level that we could never afford, despite making a combined over quarter million dollars a year (due to living in a high cost of living area). Even if we sold our house at full inflated market price and used it all as a down payment, we'd be hard pressed to afford a place with the same price.
It's not that I'm complaining about the equity, it just doesn't get me much when everything else is insanely inflated. We barely squeaked into the place we're in because COVID tanked interest rates and prices in our area.
Also its a fucking condo.
I'll never understand people like this. Most of us will never own a home at this rate. Yet there are folks, who already own their home, who are complaining they can't switch their home like it's some trading-card game. They're part of the problem.
You know you can lower the asking price to sell it faster...
What if they start a huge fire and burnt down a ton of houses if they couldn't hold out anymore?
No, but they can remain solvent longer than you can survive on the streets.
And that's how they get you.
they have enough money to remain solvent for generations.
and they're using our retirement money to do it
What impact would a nationwide guerilla campaign of vandalism against say, Berkshire do?
I think we need more than vandalism. But it couldn't hurt. Where's Mario?
Why stop at Berkshire? Vandalize any home that sits vacant. We have more vacant homes than homeless in America. We just need to make vacant homes too big of a risk
No no no open the house to people that need to crash with a roof over their head. Squatting is the answer. Maybe eve some destructive squatting.
That's definitely a more productive solution
“Productive destructive squatting” sounds like a euphemism for part of my morning routine
Sounds like a convenient excuse to make everything a rental, or to just tear down all vacant homes.
You can't expect these people to sit by an issue they can toss money at to make better for them.
everything they own is insured and you would be doing them a favor if they could collect on the insurance money instead of holding onto the assets.
Insurance will start dropping them fast if it really catches on. A few wouldn’t affect anything. But hundreds?
anytime an insurance company withdraws from an arena; they pay out to their biggest policy holders anyways and blackrock has to be the biggest.
Probably not. At their level it's probably self insured, so they lose the money.
Someone will lose money, but it won't be blackrock
Or luigi blackrock
I want those 2015 prices