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My most serious concern is along these lines=
Recall, Trump ran his campaign on an anti-Wall Street agenda. “The hedge fund guys didn’t build this country. These are guys that shift paper around and they get lucky,” he told Face the Nation as a candidate. In a campaign ad, he went directly after Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein, calling him the embodiment of the global elites that “have robbed our working class.”
Since the election, Trump has embraced Wall Street advisors including Cohn, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and several others.
- President Trump is reportedly considering naming economic advisor Gary Cohn, former president of Goldman Sachs, to head the Federal Reserve.
- His appointment would make the Fed the third major world central bank currently led by a former top Goldman executive.
- Cohn would bring market experience to the job, but lacks any real foundation in monetary policy.
Goldman Sachs may be on the verge of consolidating its gradual takeover of global central banking, but there’s so much other stuff going on that hardly anyone is paying attention.