Trump’s Treasury Secretary Pick Is A Very Lucky Goldman Sachs Banker

Steven Mnuchin has a long history of coming out ahead, even in questionable deals.

Jesse Eisinger
作者 Jesse Eisinger
Steven Mnuchin, President-elect Donald Trump's nominee for Treasury Secretary, gets on an elevator after speaking with reporters in the lobby of Trump Tower, Wednesday, Nov. 30, 2016, in New York. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Steven Mnuchin has made a career out of being lucky. The former  nominated to become Donald Trump's treasury secretary had the perspicacity to purchase a collapsed subprime mortgage lender soon after the financial crisis, getting a sweet deal from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. Now, if he's confirmed, he will likely be able to take

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American Greed: Trump’s Economic Team Is A Who’s Who Of What’s Wrong

Hedge funds are represented. So is fracking. And tobacco. And guns. And banking. And steel. And there’s the guy who mismanaged Chrysler before it was rescued by a government intervention.

Richard (RJ) Eskow
作者 Richard (RJ) Eskow
Donald Trump

“I hear America singing,” Walt Whitman wrote, “the varied carols I hear.” Donald Trump hears America singing, too. But where Whitman heard men and women, masons and carpenters, Trump hears only the unvarying monotone of rich white males like himself. Trump’s tone-deafness was in full effect last week, when he announced his team of economic

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