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lostnfound

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Fri Jul 21, 2017, 12:40 PM Jul 2017

Scaramucci: "Hedge fund seeding" "Fake it til you make it" former Goldman Sachs guy

Last edited Fri Jul 21, 2017, 02:05 PM - Edit history (1)

Skybridge founded by Anthony Scaramucci in 2005 now has $12.5 B in assets.
Did he earn money the honest way?

How's that swamp draining project?

There's a puffed up overvalued asset economy and there's the work hard for a few bucks an hour economy. The gap between them is not so much driven by the minimum wage, but by a fake economy that says that bankers and financiers, hawking pyramid schemes and sophisticated financial instruments and perhaps getting influx of cash from Russian oligarchs or arms trading or whatever scheme of get-rich-quick is available to them, are worth so much more than the mere mortals who actually produce goods and provide services needed for human beings to live.

Harvard educated. No wonder the deplorable no longer respect college educations. At a certain level, they are onto something.

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