TheBiggestJerk
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An interesting read from Reddit.
Citadel and friends are playing the pr game to shift blame for the impending pension collapse and everyone is allowing it again.
It's almost like the entire stock market has just been one big scam for the last ten-plus years. Cheap money, backroom deals, and hedge funds inflating a fantasy economy so the top five percent could walk off with damn near all the real gains. Now the bubble's losing air, and suddenly it's "oh no, tariffs!" Like that's the problem. Not the $20 to $30 trillion in fake, illiquid, or purely hypothetical assets they've cooked up through private equity, junk debt, and imaginary growth. Not the endless leveraged buyouts. Not Citadel and its sketchy little twin, Citadel Securities, front-running trades and rigging the whole thing with payment-for-order-flow games.
You really think it's a coincidence that BlackRock, Vanguard, and Blackstone own chunks of basically every major company and also "manage" your pension? They convinced cities and states to dump billions into alternative investments that just happen to be their own overleveraged zombie companies. It’s a giant feedback loop. Strip it for parts, repackage the debt, and call it value.
Now they’re sounding alarms about pensions and acting like it’s some shocking discovery. Give me a break. They know what’s coming and they’re laying the groundwork for blame. Tariffs. China. Inflation. Anything but themselves. They spent the last decade looting the middle class. Buy up a company, fire the workers, raise prices, gut the service, and pass the wreckage off to pension systems. Look at Toys R Us. Look at the hospitals they’ve drained dry. Or joanns and hooters, all were profitable yet somehow immediately went bankrupt? Same blueprint every time. Buy company, ransack it, have the bank repackage the loan and con a pension into buying it.
And the banks? Of course they’re involved. They're enabling all of it with CLOs, the modern version of CDOs. Same scam as 2008, just new packaging. These junk loans are sitting in pensions right now like ticking bombs. Bombs that will start exploding over the next 6 months.
The media’s quiet because BlackRock and Vanguard have stakes in most of it. So instead of a real investigation, we get soft headlines about how tariffs are hurting retirement portfolios. No, the portfolios were already screwed. This is the distraction.
So when pensions crash and your state acts shocked, don’t buy it. They knew. They all knew. This wasn’t some accident. This was the plan from the start.
Citadel and friends are playing the pr game to shift blame for the impending pension collapse and everyone is allowing it again.
It's almost like the entire stock market has just been one big scam for the last ten-plus years. Cheap money, backroom deals, and hedge funds inflating a fantasy economy so the top five percent could walk off with damn near all the real gains. Now the bubble's losing air, and suddenly it's "oh no, tariffs!" Like that's the problem. Not the $20 to $30 trillion in fake, illiquid, or purely hypothetical assets they've cooked up through private equity, junk debt, and imaginary growth. Not the endless leveraged buyouts. Not Citadel and its sketchy little twin, Citadel Securities, front-running trades and rigging the whole thing with payment-for-order-flow games.
You really think it's a coincidence that BlackRock, Vanguard, and Blackstone own chunks of basically every major company and also "manage" your pension? They convinced cities and states to dump billions into alternative investments that just happen to be their own overleveraged zombie companies. It’s a giant feedback loop. Strip it for parts, repackage the debt, and call it value.
Now they’re sounding alarms about pensions and acting like it’s some shocking discovery. Give me a break. They know what’s coming and they’re laying the groundwork for blame. Tariffs. China. Inflation. Anything but themselves. They spent the last decade looting the middle class. Buy up a company, fire the workers, raise prices, gut the service, and pass the wreckage off to pension systems. Look at Toys R Us. Look at the hospitals they’ve drained dry. Or joanns and hooters, all were profitable yet somehow immediately went bankrupt? Same blueprint every time. Buy company, ransack it, have the bank repackage the loan and con a pension into buying it.
And the banks? Of course they’re involved. They're enabling all of it with CLOs, the modern version of CDOs. Same scam as 2008, just new packaging. These junk loans are sitting in pensions right now like ticking bombs. Bombs that will start exploding over the next 6 months.
The media’s quiet because BlackRock and Vanguard have stakes in most of it. So instead of a real investigation, we get soft headlines about how tariffs are hurting retirement portfolios. No, the portfolios were already screwed. This is the distraction.
So when pensions crash and your state acts shocked, don’t buy it. They knew. They all knew. This wasn’t some accident. This was the plan from the start.
