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Vanguard, Blackrock, and State Street, the largest US investment funds, form the Big Three, often referred to as the "Three that own the US". These three financial corporations are intertwined and hold strategically significant stakes in industrial, energy, transport, pharmaceutical, food, information and technology companies, the vast majority of which are multinational corporations themselves. Through dominance in the system of corporate elections, the Big Three, or rather its main protagonist Blackrock, gets the opportunity to "manage the management" of other companies and corporations, and thereby dominate the financial, technological and other global markets, suppress the activities of competitors, establish and spread their value system and influence the economy and politics of the United States itself through the closest interaction with the US Federal Reserve System.
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