tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5724181159639068489.post7007474106772346653..comments2023-11-05T05:09:14.089-05:00Comments on Goldman Sachs: Information, Comments, Opinions and Facts: Can a Goldman Sachs Guy Change His Spots?RobertMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03960912417983904202noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5724181159639068489.post-66039890551399042112011-06-16T11:48:07.504-04:002011-06-16T11:48:07.504-04:00The administration has done nothing to crush foul ...The administration has done nothing to crush foul play...btw wasn't Goldman a big Obama supporter?<br /><br />TOP MONEYMEN LAND PLUM POSITIONS: OpenSecrets Blog has reported in the past about President Barack Obama's big-money bundlers landing top ambassadorships to countries such as France, Belgium, Luxembourg and the Bahamas. Now, iWatch News, the collaborative investigative reporting effort of the Center for Public Integrity and the Huffington Post Investigative Fund, adds more data to that trend.<br /><br />"More than two years after Obama took office vowing to banish 'special interests' from his administration, nearly 200 of his biggest donors have landed plum government jobs and advisory posts, won federal contracts worth millions of dollars for their business interests or attended numerous elite White House meetings and social events," iWatch News reported Tuesday.<br /><br />http://www.opensecrets.org/news/2011/06/barack-obama-rewards-elite-donors.htmlAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5724181159639068489.post-27806439835453764182011-06-16T10:59:34.539-04:002011-06-16T10:59:34.539-04:00Elizabeth Warren, Capitalist Moderate
I think the...Elizabeth Warren, Capitalist Moderate<br /><br />I think the first lesson that any businessperson should be taking from the massive downturn of the past few years is that we’ve let finance run too far afield, and that the guys at the banks are messing things up for everybody else. How can the rest of America make any money when Wall Street is bringing the entire system to its knees? It doesn’t seem fair. But instead, the Republicans and the Chamber of Commerce—claiming to represent all businesses from the titans down to “the local butcher“—are standing in solidarity against any regulation to promote the stable functioning of American capitalism.<br /><br />http://www.dissentmagazine.org/atw.php?id=472Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com