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Atlas Shrugged Crony Awards

Posted by dbhalling 9 years, 10 months ago to Culture

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Who will you nominate as the biggest crony (thief). My vote is Elon Musk.

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Posted by rockymountainpirate 9 years, 10 months ago

My vote is also on Elon Musk, closely followed by Warren James Taggart Buffet.

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  Posted by dbhalling 9 years, 10 months ago
  
  What is hard to believe is that people used to think that Buffet was a great investor. Speaking of which no one choose George Soros yet.
  
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    Posted by rockymountainpirate 9 years, 10 months ago
    
    Soros. Yes that thieving money manipulator. I keep saying part of odipshits lack of approval for Keystone is buffets trains are making a bundle on transporting it. A real Taggart/Thompson deal.
    
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    Posted by jbrenner 9 years, 10 months ago
    
    Soros has so much money that he dictates what the politicians will do, as opposed to schmooze them with dollars and fine wine to get his way.
    
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      Posted by dbhalling 9 years, 10 months ago
      
      I suspect, without any evidence, that he has bribed his way into a number of countries central banks.
      
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        Posted by jbrenner 9 years, 10 months ago
        
        Or bought them.
        
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Posted by freedomforall 9 years, 10 months ago

One entire industry has done nothing but looting for 101 years

Prime looter, Alan Greenspan, federal Reserve Bank
Assisted by Robert Rubin, Lawrence Summers, Henry Paulson, Timothy Geithner, Ben Bernanke

Co-conspirators
Lloyd Blankfein, Godman,oops, Goldman Sachs
Jamie Dimon, JP Morgan Chase
Brian Moynihan, B of A
Daniel H. Mudd, Fannie Mae
Robert P. Kelly, BONY
Gerald L. Hassell, BONY
John Stumpf, Wells Fargo
Michael L. Corbat, Citigroup
Richard K. Davis, US Bancorp
James Gorman, Morgan Stanley
Richard D. Fairbank, Capital One

All were assisted in their gambling operations by Joseph Cassano, AIG

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  Posted by freedomforall 9 years, 10 months ago
  
  Apologies, I may have misused the term "industry."
  
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  Posted by dbhalling 9 years, 10 months ago
  
  All good choices - but I take exception to Greenspan. There is no evidence that Greenspan caused the stock market bubble of the 1990s. All commodity prices were stable to falling and there was no big spike in M1,2 or 3. The fed was not buying Treasuries or Mortgages. This theme by Austrians that the 1990s was all a bubble just does not hold water.
  
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Posted by Robbie53024 9 years, 10 months ago

There are so many, where to start. How about Blankfein and Cohn, the top 2 at Goldman Sachs? Or Greenspan/Bernanke/Yellen from the Fed?

You could pretty much pick any CEO from the Fortune 1000 and not be wrong.

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Posted by khalling 9 years, 10 months ago

Warren Buffet

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  Posted by jbrenner 9 years, 10 months ago
  
  Warren Buffett is way up there, but I have to go with Jeffrey Immelt of General Electric. Immelt would play Orren Boyle in Atlas Shrugged - Now Non-Fiction.
  
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    Posted by dbhalling 9 years, 10 months ago
    
    So true
    
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Posted by freedomforall 9 years, 10 months ago

Lets not forget private military contractors.

KBR, once known as Kellogg Brown and Root. The controversial former subsidiary of Halliburton, which was once run by Dick Cheney, vice-president to George W. Bush, was awarded at least $39.5bn in federal contracts related to the Iraq war over the past decade.

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Posted by ObjectiveAnalyst 9 years, 10 months ago

Tom Steyer... not the biggest, but one of many not yet named here.
http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB1000142405...

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