Blackrock and Hillary Clinton

David Dayen reporting at the Intercept on March 2nd, 2016:

BlackRock is far from a household name, but it is the largest asset management firm in the world, controlling $4.6 trillion in investor funds — about a trillion dollars more than the annual federal budget, and five times the assets of Goldman Sachs. And Larry Fink, BlackRock’s CEO, has assembled a veritable shadow government full of former Treasury Department officials at his company.

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Fink’s most telling hire, however, is Cheryl Mills, arguably Clinton’s most trusted confidante. Mills was Clinton’s chief of staff at the State Department, was deputy White House counsel in the Bill Clinton administration, and is on the board of directors of the Clinton Foundation. Fink hired Mills for the BlackRock board of directors in October 2013, in what observers mused was a ploy to insinuate himself into the Clinton inner circle.

https://theintercept.com/2016/03/02/larry-fink-and-his-blackrock-team-po...

Long story short, Hillary's cabinet and WH Staff will be even more Wall Street centric than Obama's.

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Pricknick's picture

flabbergasted?
surprised?
shocked?
befuddled?
astounded?
blown away?

Nope.

It's the new, improved, reborn, revised, upgraded, renovated and above all else, enriched democratic party.

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Regardless of the path in life I chose, I realize it's always forward, never straight.

Meteor Man's picture

Do not tell Paul Krugman or The NY Times! Hillary has pledged to tell them to "Knock it off!"
The Billary Pulpit has spoken!

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"They'll say we're disturbing the peace, but there is no peace. What really bothers them is that we are disturbing the war." Howard Zinn

snoopydawg's picture

It seems that every day brings out another reason why the Clintons shouldn't get anywhere near the White House again.
She's blowing smoke up her supporter's a$$es when she tells them what they want to hear about what she would do as president.
All anyone needs to do is look at her previous actions, especially when she was SOS and all of the deals that were made between foreign governments, her state department, her foundation and the paid speeches that Bill gave
I hope people read the article at the Intercept. Those people do great investigative work.
Here's an excerpt

Clinton, for her part, has refused to rule out a treasury secretary drawn from Wall Street. Plus she has refused to say whether she would reinstate a Glass Steagal. (I'm betting that she won't

Fink’s ready-made team available for a move from Wall Street to Washington includes:
Katheryn Rosen, a managing director at BlackRock, who cut her teeth in government as a senior policy adviser to Barney Frank on the House Financial Services Committee, helping to write Dodd-Frank. Frank is an adviser to the Clinton campaign. Rosen went from Frank’s office to a deputy assistant secretary position at Treasury in February 2011, working to build the Financial Stability Oversight Council, the Treasury-led super-regulator monitoring systemic risk. Prior to government work, Rosen spent 14 years as a managing director with JPMorgan Chase.

Read that paragraph again about Kathryn Rosen Cutting her teeth as a senior policy adviser to Barney Frank and helped him write Dodd-Frank. And remember that Hillary has praised Obama for writing 'the most comprehensive banking reform' since FDR.
What she doesn't tell us is that D-F has been gutted so much that it's basically toothless in holding the banks accountable.
Too bad Markos has decided that any information that shows Hillary in a bad light is forbidden on Kos.
But I'm guessing that even if this diary was posted there, Hillary's supporters wouldn't listen or change their minds because Bernie's plans are a pipe dream. And he's unelectable.
This girl s sickening and shows that she will suck up to the banks even more than Obama did.

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Scientists are concerned that conspiracy theories may die out if they keep coming true at the current alarming rate.

The only thing worse than the idea of a GOP controlled House, Senate and White House is the Clintons with a GOP House and Senate. It will gag the minority Democrats and all opposition will be lost. They will privatize Soacial Security and cut Medicare.

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"Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich."--Napoleon

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The US govt appears to have a terminal case of Clintphoma. Inoperable and it has spread to all the vital organs.

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Donnie The #ShitHole Douchebag. Fake Friend to the Working Class. Real Asshole.

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I used to wonder how people like Ms. Rodham sleep at night. I figure she has to be truly vile to be able to even close her eyes at night let alone sleep.

Clintons can tell an entire nation that the exact definition of a blow job isn't really what we think it is.

And people are still swallowing their BS.

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Ruscle's picture

Who can now be told that they can grow up to be anything they want to be -- as long as they don't do anything that would take money away from the greedy 1%.

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Another Refugee from the Great Orange Purity Troll

We know how well trickle-down trickles down.

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A really great piece at Naked Capitalism on how good she is for the "girls"
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2016/05/clinton-policies-have-hurt-women....

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