Does Capitalism thrive on Main Street or Wall Street?

[Kirkland Laing]

Donald Trump just hired a guy called Steve Mnuchin as his campaign finance chief. Mnuchin used to work for Goldman Sachs and various hedge funds and is a well know person in the financial community. He's currently phoning up everybody on Wall Street and telling them that if Trump wins he's going to be Treasury Secretary, meaning he has ultimate oversight over and legal or regulatory issues these banks may be facing over the next four years plus ongoing legal issues related to previous criminality.

Trump is spreading his legs for Wall Street. Come and get me. I'm putting your guy in charge of everything now give me a nice big donation. Wall Street can back every horse in the race and can do it for buttons. Trump has only raised about a hundred million so far, he'd drop his trousers and bend over for another hundred. Do you know how much just the big Wall Street firms have paid in fines and legal fees since 2008 for their pre-mektdown criminality? Getting on for two hundred billion. With a b. So you see how ridiculously cheap these people are to buy. And all those legal fees go to pay the salaries and golden hellos of the current bunch of regulators when they move sides to work for Wall Street legal firms.

Anf Lyle. This'll make you happy. Guess where the Kenyan socialist Obama is going to start work once he leaves office? Six to eight years from now will Obama be worth a high eight or low nine figure amount?

Obama I've heard will stay in DC...you know, to attempt to keep his Presidential legacy intact, though why he would be proud of it.....oh it's because he "fundamentally transformed" America because he hates this country and everything it was founded on.

I am certain Obama will be QUITE sorry, I know how you dislike the block caps....I mean "quite" well off after departing the White House.

He's going to joing a private equity firm, get involved with investments in new tech companies and make tens of million of dollars over the next decade, probably over a hundred. He's done a lot of favours for Google, Microsoft, Facebook and Apple while prez and now they're going to pay him back.

It must be awful watching the America you thought you knew falling apart before your eyes. Not only is the south ever going to rise again but a white nationalist Republican party can never win a national election again.

And it's irrelevant who wrote that srticle I linked, who his dad is, who his grandmother did, or where it was published. I could have linked exactly the same facts that were in that article by posting a dozen links fromt he Wall Street Journal and the Financial Times, except nobody here subscribes to them and they're all going to be very boring, dry, technical articles. The article I posted is very readable by comparison and written in a way people here can enjoy reading to some extent. And I'm also saying as somebody who has worked on Wall Street for the time period the article covers that it's a hundred percent accurate.

Of course it's much easier to claim it's somehow biased or published in the wrong paper or the journalist has a father or some other crap to avoid dealing with the article itself. You just keep on keeping on.

[El Kabong]

He's going to joing a private equity firm, get involved with investments in new tech companies and make tens of million of dollars over the next decade, probably over a hundred. He's done a lot of favours for Google, Microsoft, Facebook and Apple while prez and now they're going to pay him back.

It must be awful watching the America you thought you knew falling apart before your eyes. Not only is the south ever going to rise again but a white nationalist Republican party can never win a national election again.

And it's irrelevant who wrote that srticle I linked, who his dad is, who his grandmother did, or where it was published. I could have linked exactly the same facts that were in that article by posting a dozen links fromt he Wall Street Journal and the Financial Times, except nobody here subscribes to them and they're all going to be very boring, dry, technical articles. The article I posted is very readable by comparison and written in a way people here can enjoy reading to some extent. And I'm also saying as somebody who has worked on Wall Street for the time period the article covers that it's a hundred percent accurate.

Of course it's much easier to claim it's somehow biased or published in the wrong paper or the journalist has a father or some other crap to avoid dealing with the article itself. You just keep on keeping on.

Wouldn't doubt it, I mean he and Tony Rezko were up to that in Chicago decades ago.


As for the second bit, that's rather presumptuous of you and in poor taste albeit typical of you....the only thing that shocks me is that it didn't come with a graph and/or a post from Mother Jones.


"it's irrelevant who wrote the srticle(sic)"....Irrelevant?
Matt Taibbi Gets His Sarah Palin On - The Atlantic
"What I think, sadly, is that Matt Taibbi is becoming the Sarah Palin of journalism. He seems to deliberately eschew understanding his subjects, because only corrupt, pointy-headed financial journalists who have been co-opted by the system do that. And Matt Taibbi is here to save you from those pointy headed elites."

.....and we all remember how fond you are of Sarah Palin

Why would you like Taibbi?
This Is What Happens If You Tell Matt Taibbi You Don't Like His Work to His Face
'It’s always those who dish it out who have the hardest time taking it.'

.....OH




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