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41. Why secrecy is undemocratic...

Sun Mar 29, 2015, 06:52 PM

Mar 2015

Phil Gramm: From US Senator to UBS Banker

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Prologue: As a Republican U.S. Senator and chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, Phil Gramm introduced the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, deregulating banks in 1999. Three years later after leaving office in 2002 Senator Phil Gramm served as Vice Chairman and a member of the Swiss banking giant UBS AG. In May 2009 the company completed the acquisition of the bailed-out AIG Financial Products Corp., including AIG’s rights to the DJAIG Commodity index. Current Market Cap: $71 billion. Phil Gramm was also John McCain’s presidential senior economic adviser in 2008. Economist Paul Krugman named Phil Gramm as #2 man of the economic crisis. Alan Greenspan was #1. (Personally, I would have also named Goldman Sachs CEO and U.S. Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson as #3.)

-- http://bud-meyers.blogspot.com/2011/04/phil-gramm-from-us-senator-to-ubs.html?m=1

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