At theirinception the trusts were seeded with small assets, but since then they have benefited from large amounts of leverage, in part in the form of loans from a Pritzker-controlled partnership and from years of business deals that threw profits from the expanding Pritzker empire into the trusts.
As he says, a lot of people will freak out this, but its another step along the same line of waste reduction as what we hoped The Times would eliminate (someday) by having copyeditors or writers tag their work once at the point of inception and bake that stuff into the files that flowed downstream from there.