The Future of Money: Currency or Control?

The Invisible Threads Behind the World Wealth Masters

Opening of the new town of Van Nuys, February 22, 1911.

History about how money affects our daily lives would be deeply impacted by a very specific date: November 2, 1952.

On that day, a child was born in Van Nuys, California, who would go down in history for getting a seat at the table of the World Economic Forum’s board of directors, thus obtaining a great influence to draw what the future of all of us will be like. And it wouldn't be a problem if it weren't for the fact that our figure is one of the "big fish" of Wall Street, serving as both CEO and Chairman of one of the most influential financial corporations in international markets.

I'm talking about Larry Fink, the co-founder of BlackRock, the largest money-management firm in the world, overseeing more than $10 trillion in assets under management — a ten followed by twelve ceros:

10.000.000.000.000

Teenagers cruising Van Nuys Boulevard in the San Fernando Valley, a suburb of Los Angeles, 1972.

By the 1970s, while many young Americans surely enjoyed the "freedom to walk barefoot on the street", Fink earned a BA in political science from UCLA and an MBA in real estate at the UCLA Anderson School of…