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Breaking Points with Krystal and Saagar

Mini Show #30: BlackRock, Nuclear Power, Corporate Profits, Media Influence, Twitter, Kamala, Corporate Mergers, & More!

Breaking Points with Krystal and Saagar

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Philosophy, Government, Politics, Society & Culture, News

4.68.9K Ratings

🗓️ 9 April 2022

⏱️ 96 minutes

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Summary

Krystal and Saagar discuss BlackRock's climate profiteering, MSNBC shakeup, corporate profits, nuclear energy, Tucker's influence, NYT audience, Kamala's incoherent answers, Elon's Twitter play, and corporate mergers with Matt Stoller! To become a Breaking Points Premium Member and watch/listen to the show uncut and 1 hour early visit: https://breakingpoints.supercast.com/ To listen to Breaking Points as a podcast, check them out on Apple and Spotify Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/breaking-points-with-krystal-and-saagar/id1570045623 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4Kbsy61zJSzPxNZZ3PKbXl Merch: https://breaking-points.myshopify.com/ The Lever: https://www.levernews.com/ Matt Stoller Links: https://secure.everyaction.com/FNcO8Kqp_kGsVUT1sYEC1g2 https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2022/01/federal-trade-commission-justice-department-seek-strengthen-enforcement-against-illegal-mergers https://mattstoller.substack.com/ Meredith Angwin: https://meredithangwin.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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or wherever you get your podcast. Really helps other people find the show. As always,

0:42.2

special thank you to Supercast for powering our premium membership. If you want to find

0:46.7

out more, go to crystalandsager.com. All right, guys. Time now for our weekly partnership

0:52.2

segment with the lever. Joining us for the first time this week, we have Adam Lowenstein.

0:56.4

He has written a great piece for the lever. He also writes, reframe your inbox, which is

1:00.5

an email newsletter of essays and interviews about corporate power, capitalism, and politics.

1:05.3

Definitely sounds like something I would be into. Great to see you, Adam. Welcome.

1:08.0

Good to see you, man. Thanks for having me. Yeah, absolutely. So let's go ahead and put

1:11.1

up this piece that you wrote for the lever, which I think is really interesting and very

1:15.4

relevant about BlackRock. You say here, for BlackRock, the climate crisis is a win, win,

1:22.7

no matter how or whether, government's tackle, climate change, the world's biggest asset

1:27.9

manager has positioned itself to cash in. So just break down here for us here reporting.

1:33.1

Absolutely. So let's start with the first win, which is the status quo. And we know right

1:39.2

now BlackRock is investing a ton of money in oil, gas, and coal and other dirty assets

1:43.9

and industries and technologies by their own calculations that are making money off

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