Atlas Shrugged Crony Awards

Posted by dbhalling 9 years, 4 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 freedomforall 9 years, 4 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 9 years, 4 months ago in reply to this comment.
    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, 4 months ago in reply to this comment.
    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 $ rockymountainpirate 9 years, 4 months ago in reply to this comment.
    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 9 years, 4 months ago in reply to this comment.
    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 9 years, 4 months ago in reply to this comment.
    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, 4 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 freedomforall 9 years, 4 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 $ jbrenner 9 years, 4 months ago in reply to this comment.
    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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