Third World America - Arianna Huffington [107]
97 Robert Rubin is co-chairman of Goldman Sachs: Eric Dash and Louise Story, “Rubin Leaving Citigroup; Smith Barney for Sale,” 9 Jan. 2009, www.nytimes.com.
98 Dick Cheney is a congressman: Dan Froomkin, “Halliburton’s Return: Oil Spill Puts Symbol of Cronyism and Corruption Back in the News,” 11 May 2010, www.huffingtonpost.com.
99 You thought Halliburton had been eradicated: Ibid.
100 You thought it was over when the Justice Department: Ibid.
101 You thought reports that Halliburton had allowed: Ibid.
102 Well, they’re baaa-aaack! And their work sealing: Charlie Cray, “Time to Drill Down into Halliburton’s Role in Big Oil Spill,” 30 Apr. 2010, www.huffingtonpost.com.
103 Doing a segment on Halliburton’s involvement: Robert F. Kennedy, “Sex, Lies and Oil Spills,” 5 May 2010, www.huffingtonpost.com.
104 MSNBC’s Chris Matthews couldn’t contain his indignation: Hardball with Chris Matthews, 11 May 2010, www.msnbc.com.
105 Janine Wedel calls them “flexians”: Linda Keenan and Janine R. Wedel, “Shadow Elite: Think BP’s the Bad Guy? Think Bigger, Way Bigger,” 13 May 2010, www.huffingtonpost.com.
106 His résumé is the personification: Robert Rubin: Executive Profile and Biography, www.businessweek.com.
107 Early in 2010, he penned a lengthy essay in Newsweek: Robert E. Rubin, “Getting the Economy Back on Track,” 29 Dec. 2009, www.newsweek.com.
108 What grabbed my attention was not the 2,500-word piece: Ibid.
109 Given that the piece is about the: Jonathan Stempel and Dan Wilchins, “Robert Rubin Quits Citigroup Amid Criticism,” 9 Jan. 2009, www.reuters.com.
110 But that’s how our system “works”: Robert E. Rubin, “Getting the Economy Back on Track,” 29 Dec. 2009, www.newsweek.com.
111 This from the man who, as Bill Clinton’s Treasury secretary: Timothy A. Canova, “The Legacy of the Clinton Bubble,” Dissent Summer 2008, www.dissentmagazine.org.
112 and who lobbied the Treasury during the Bush years: Mark Lewis, “Rubin Red-Faced over Enron? Not in the Times,” 11 Feb. 2002, www.forbes.com.
113 “Politics is like sales”: Simon Johnson and James Kwak, 13 Bankers: The Wall Street Takeover and the Next Financial Meltdown (New York: Pantheon, 2010), 104.
114 Just as Ptolemy was convinced: Owen Gingerich and James R. Voelkel, “Tycho and Kepler: Solid Myth Versus Subtle Truth,” Social Research 72, 1 (22 Mar. 2005).
115 Writing about the “grand book” that is the universe: Galileo Galilei, Discoveries and Opinions of Galileo, trans. and notes by Stillman Drake (New York: Doubleday, 1957), 237–238.
116 “The struggle of man against power …”: Milan Kundera, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, trans. Aaron Asher (New York: Harper Perennial, 1996), 4.
117 Until the Securities and Exchange Commission sued Goldman Sachs: Shahien Nasiripour, “Goldman Sachs Fraud Charges Could Be Just the Beginning, Say Analysts,” 16 Apr. 2010, www.huffingtonpost.com.
118 Six months earlier, the SEC arranged a settlement: Martin Z. Braun and William Selway, “JPMorgan Ends SEC Alabama Swap Probe for $722 Million,” 4 Nov. 2009, www.bloomberg.com.
119 As part of the settlement, JPMorgan: William Selway and Martin Z. Braun, “JPMorgan Arranging Alabama Swaps Provided Payoffs, SEC Shows,” 5 Nov. 2009, www.bloomberg.com.
120 We saw the same dynamic played out: Michael J. Merced and Louise Story, “Nearly 700 at Merrill in Million-Dollar Club,” Feb. 2009, www.nytimes.com.
121 Bank of America executives failed to inform: Ibid.
122 Bank of America agreed to pay a $33 million fine: Stephen Bernard, “Judge Overturns Bank of America-SEC Settlement over Merrill Bonuses,” Associated Press, 14 Sep. 2009.
123 A heroic U.S. district judge, Jed Rakoff: Larry Neumeister, “Federal Judge Approves $150 Million Bank of America, SEC Settlement, but Calls It ‘Half-Baked Justice,’ ” Associated Press, 22 Feb. 2010.
124 The SEC and Bank of America came back: Ibid.
125 The judge said he was forced by judicial restraint: Ibid.
126 The total amount of fines levied by the SEC: Jonathan Stempel and Rachelle Younglai, “SEC