The Hedge Fund That Ate Chicago

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http://www.alternet.org/economy/meet-hedge-fund-ate-chicago

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Wall Street buys a Mayor?

When Rahm Emanuel worked as a presidential assistant in the Clinton administration, he earned $118,000 a year. After he left his White House job in 1998, he got a raise, making over $18 million in the next two and a half years working for the "boutique" investment banking firm of Wasserstein Perella. Emanuel had no previous banking experience.

Ken Griffin, the CEO of the Chicago-based Citadel hedge fund and "his wife Anne Dias Griffin, donated more than $200,000 to Mayor Emanuel’s campaign for Mayor in 2011," report David Sirota and Ben Joravsky in Pandodaily. "Griffin describes the mayor as his 'good friend'. Other Citadel employees have donated about $178,000 to Emanuel’s campaign."

The 45-year-old Griffin's income for 2013 was $900 million (or about $492,632 an hour).

Apparently a good deal of his income comes from high-frequency trading (see my summary) that runs through the two Chicago financial exchanges. "His Citadel LLC returned more than 300 percent in a fund started as a high-frequency strategy," according to Bloomberg News.

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Crazy how states have been looted

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