Kimberly Bailey is about halfway through a 30-day “listening tour,” meeting with staff, stakeholders and board members to hear what the Billings business community needs to thrive.
Following the money, today, no longer leads into tax havens or the opaque circuits of rogue finance, instead leads to regulated places, even boring: the offices of the big asset managers. BlackRock, Vanguard and State Street administer together over twenty trillion dollars, a figure, just to understand, superior to the combined GDP of China and Japan. [...] The article Fondi, Big Tech and a politician as guarantor: this is the new architecture o…