Sunday 17 July 2011

"Romney beats Obama in Wall Street money"

   " Employees of Goldman Sachs Group gave Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney $238,250 in the last three months, more than workers at any other company, according to a computer-assisted analysis of Federal Election Commission data. Obama took in $10,113.           Four years ago, employees of New York-based Goldman gave $994,795 to Obama and $234,275 to Romney, according to the Center for Responsive Politics, a Washington-based research group. For both candidates, it was more than any other company’s employees."     (Link is from Bloomberg.)

A reminder:  "Goldman Sachs, one of Wall Street’s most prestigious investment banks, was also among the many banks in 2008 and 2009 to receive billions of dollars in taxpayer money to help it stay afloat. ... A number of high-ranking government officials in recent years have spent part of their careers at Goldman Sachs."   From Open Secrets

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