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Burned by Obama: Wall St. execs feel betrayed
NY Post ^ | September 29, 2009 | CHARLES GASPARINO

Posted on 09/29/2009 3:13:06 AM PDT by Scanian

In the depths of the financial crisis last year, people like Morgan Stanley's John Mack, BlackRock's Larry Fink, Greg Fleming (then of Merrill Lynch), JP Morgan's Jamie Dimon and Goldman Sachs' Lloyd Blankfein were telling everyone that candidate Barack Obama was a "moderate," and moderation was what this country needed.

What a difference a year makes. They won't admit it in public -- but in private conversations, the top guys on Wall Street are feeling burned.

The guy who seemed like such a steady voice -- vowing to curb runaway spending and restoring order to the banking system and the economy as a whole -- is instead so driven to achieve his big-government policy goals that he and his policy people are ignoring their own economic advisers on the severe economic costs that his agenda will cause.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: betrayal; bho44; communistcoup; dimon; lies; moderate; obama; wallstreetvote; whitehouse
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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin

Your opinion.


81 posted on 09/29/2009 3:57:12 PM PDT by gogogodzilla (Live free or die!)
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To: Scanian

I think he (they) burned all of us, who is going to stop this?


82 posted on 10/01/2009 8:24:40 AM PDT by opentalk
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