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Saturday, February 18, 2023

Did we get under someone's skin with our Blackstone-BREIT posts?

Now here's a puzzle. Someone went through our blog posts all the way back to 2018 to find something objectionable and then complained to Blogger about it. The post - again - from way back in 2018, actually just reproduced an item about, and critical of, the chief investment officer of the Regents that had appeared in UCOP Daily News Clips. (These are clips about university matters circulated by email to subscribers by UCOP.) 

So, we can speculate on what might have triggered someone recently to go combing through the blog looking for something to object to about regental investment policy. And the only such items of late are our posts about Blackstone, its BREIT, and the risk apparently taken by the chief investment officer to bail out the BREIT to the tune of $4.5 billion. (Use the search engine on this blog to find that coverage.)

In any case, yours truly got an email notice about the 2018 entry:

Click on image above to clarify.

You can still see the 2018 post by accepting the warning:

Your post titled "Dirty Laundry at the UC Investment Office" was flagged to us for review. This post was put behind a warning for readers because it contains sensitive content; the 
post is visible at 
http://uclafacultyassociation.blogspot.com/2018/09/dirty-laundry-at-uc-investment-office.html
Your blog readers must acknowledge the warning before being able to read the post/blog.

Anyway, here's a little music for our thin-skinned anonymous critic:

Or direct to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1AHec7sfZ8.

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PS: Blog faithful can always read back posts on this blog by going to the alternative quarterly "book" versions of this blog posted elsewhere - without warnings.

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