{"id":1315,"date":"2017-03-16T20:19:12","date_gmt":"2017-03-17T03:19:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/?p=1315"},"modified":"2017-03-16T20:19:12","modified_gmt":"2017-03-17T03:19:12","slug":"too-many-goldman-guys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/2017\/03\/16\/too-many-goldman-guys\/","title":{"rendered":"Too many \u201cGoldman guys?&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tAt <em>the Intercept <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2017\/03\/15\/donald-trump-isnt-even-pretending-to-oppose-goldman-sachs-anymore\/\">this thought provoking article<\/a>  about the Whitehouse&#8217;s abandonment of its populist rhetoric concerning Wall Street: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>That populist smokescreen is long gone now.<\/p>\n<p>Mnuchin and Donovan are just two of five Goldman expats in high-level positions on Trump\u2019s team. Steve Bannon spent a limited time at Goldman Sachs, but White House assistant Dina Powell, who headed the bank\u2019s philanthropic efforts, and National Economic Council director Gary Cohn, Goldman\u2019s former president, had higher-ranking positions for a longer period. Jay Clayton, Trump\u2019s nominee for the Securities and Exchange Commission, was a partner for Goldman\u2019s main law firm, Sullivan and Cromwell.<\/p>\n<p>White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus reportedly blocked Donovan from Treasury initially, amid fears of an image problem with too many \u201cGoldman guys.\u201d But Donovan got the post anyway.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the Intercept this thought provoking article about the Whitehouse&#8217;s abandonment of its populist rhetoric concerning Wall Street: That populist smokescreen is long gone now. Mnuchin and Donovan are just two of five Goldman expats in high-level positions on Trump\u2019s team. Steve Bannon spent a limited time at Goldman Sachs, but White House assistant Dina &#8230; <span class=\"more\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/2017\/03\/16\/too-many-goldman-guys\/\">[Read more&#8230;]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,18,19],"tags":[552,567,733,771,901,908,997,1427,1627,1861],"class_list":{"0":"entry","1":"post","2":"publish","3":"author-sergneri","4":"has-excerpt","5":"post-1315","7":"format-standard","8":"category-politics","9":"category-this-day-in-history","10":"category-trump","11":"post_tag-dina-powell","12":"post_tag-donald-trump","13":"post_tag-gary-cohn","14":"post_tag-goldman-sachs","15":"post_tag-jay-clayton","16":"post_tag-jim-donovan","17":"post_tag-lloyd-blankfein","18":"post_tag-reince-priebus","19":"post_tag-steve-bannon","20":"post_tag-white-house"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1315\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}