{"id":24096,"date":"2011-11-27T16:14:28","date_gmt":"2011-11-27T23:14:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/11\/27\/company-men.html"},"modified":"2011-11-27T21:24:51","modified_gmt":"2011-11-28T04:24:51","slug":"company-men","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/11\/27\/company-men.html","title":{"rendered":"Company Men"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oh, look &#8212; Goldman Sachs owns Europe, too. Joy.<\/p>\n<p><i>This is The Goldman Sachs Project. Put simply, it is to hug governments close. Every business wants to advance its interests with the regulators that can stymie them and the politicians who can give them a tax break, but this is no mere lobbying effort. Goldman is there to provide advice for governments and to provide financing, to send its people into public service and to dangle lucrative jobs in front of people coming out of government. The Project is to create such a deep exchange of people and ideas and money that it is impossible to tell the difference between the public interest and the Goldman Sachs interest.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>(<a href=\"http:\/\/ind.pn\/vA6fOs\" >http:\/\/ind.pn\/vA6fOs<\/a>) #ddtb<br \/><a href='http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/incoming\/article6264098.ece\/ALTERNATES\/w620\/Pg-12-eurozone-graphic.jpg'><img src='http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/incoming\/article6264098.ece\/ALTERNATES\/w620\/Pg-12-eurozone-graphic.jpg' style='max-width:97.5%;clear:both;' border='0' \/><\/a><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh, look &#8212; Goldman Sachs owns Europe, too. Joy. This is The Goldman Sachs Project. Put simply, it is to hug governments close. Every business wants to advance its interests with the regulators that can stymie them and the politicians who can give them a tax break, but this is no mere lobbying effort. Goldman &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/11\/27\/company-men.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Company Men&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,35,77],"tags":[107],"class_list":["post-24096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-big-business","category-economy","tag-ddtb"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":132768,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/02\/06\/worries-about-trump-but-not-from-the-direction-one-would-expect.html","url_meta":{"origin":24096,"position":0},"title":"Worries about Trump &#8230; but not from the direction one would expect","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 6-Feb-17 10:16am","format":false,"excerpt":"Bear in mind that it is way early days in the Trump Administration, and stories that start \"as little as a few weeks ago\" might in turn be obsoleted a few weeks from now.But it's still interesting (and\/or bittersweetly amusing) that some of the Big Money interests who were so\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":23813,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/11\/17\/this-certainly-seems-indicative-of-something-wrong-in-the-system.html","url_meta":{"origin":24096,"position":1},"title":"This certainly seems indicative of something wrong in the system","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 17-Nov-11 1:06pm","format":false,"excerpt":"I certainly don't want to encourage welfare fraud ... but the \"fraud\" in this case is that she was ineligible, not because she wasn't poor and didn't have dependents to feed, but because she had a previous drug conviction. She lied about that on her application, qualified for food stamps,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":132505,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/01\/04\/promoting-jobs-at-all-costs.html","url_meta":{"origin":24096,"position":2},"title":"Promoting jobs at all costs","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 4-Jan-17 3:30pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Because of course the \"Drain the Swamp\" guy would nominate a guy -- Jay Clayton -- whose firm represented Goldman Sachs during the financial crash ,as the new head of the SEC, the agency that (among other things) regulates Goldman Sachs.What's disturbing\/irksome in the article is the concept -- echoed\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":23751,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/11\/15\/newt-loves-outsourcing-government.html","url_meta":{"origin":24096,"position":3},"title":"Newt Loves Outsourcing Government","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 15-Nov-11 9:25am","format":false,"excerpt":"The CBO (Congressional Budget Office) is not beyond reproach, but it's the closest thing we have to a neutral party for cutting through the political, partisan posturing as to what the financial impacts of various proposed laws would actually be. 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