BlackRock: Our Money is Taken by an Underground Authority

by James Franco

About the Book
Unknown to far too many, but powerful like no other company.
BlackRock is the first empire to ever exist. Over four trillion dollars are managed by the American asset management. No bank or fund has anywhere like as much sway. Large investors, finance ministries, and central banks receive investment, analysis, and advice from BlackRock. Allianz, BASF, Adidas, and Deutsche Bank are just a few of the most significant corporations that the "shadow bank," which operates out of sight of national and international banking supervisory bodies, has long had significant stakes in.
The CEO and founder of BlackRock, Larry Fink, weaves unseen threads in our local economy as well as the global economy. The financial world might collapse with only one bad decision. The time has come to take BlackRock out.

271 pages, Hardcover

Published August 16, 2022

About the author

James Edward Franco is an American actor, film director, screenwriter, film producer, author, and painter. He began acting during the late 1990s, appearing on the short-lived television series Freaks and Geeks and starring in several teen films. In 2001 he played the title role in Mark Rydell's television biographical film James Dean, which earned him a Golden Globe for Best Actor in a Miniseries or Television Film.

Franco achieved international fame with his portrayal of Harry Osborn in the Spider-Man trilogy. Since then, his films have included the war film The Great Raid (2005), the 2006 romantic drama Tristan & Isolde, and Justin Lin's drama Annapolis (2006). In 2008, Franco starred in the comedy stoner film Pineapple Express and received a Golden Globe Award nomination for Best Actor in a Motion Picture Musical or Comedy. He played a prominent role in the 2008 biographical film Milk. In 2010, he played the lead role in Howl as Allen Ginsberg, and 127 Hours, a film about Aron Ralston, an American mountaineer who cut off his own arm to free himself after he was trapped beneath a boulder. He was nominated for a Golden Globe for his performance.

In 2010, Franco published a collection of short stories called Palo Alto. The book is named after the California city where Franco grew up and is dedicated to many of the writers he worked with at Brooklyn College. The book has received mixed reviews; Los Angeles Times called it "the work of an ambitious young man who clearly loves to read, who has a good eye for detail, but who has spent way too much time on style and virtually none on substance". The Guardian said that "The Hollywood star's foray into the literary world may be met with cynicism in some quarters, but this is a promising debut from a most unlikely source."