So many of these potential @JoeBiden admin picks are revolving door figures and their selection would violate Biden’s own campaign promises. (1/x) https://twitter.com/CNBCPolitics/status/1247283975426658306">https://twitter.com/CNBCPolit...
Larry Fink held a position on Trump’s Economic Advisory Board, and his company, @BlackRock, is the largest investor in coal development and reserves worldwide. It practically embodies unchecked corporate greed. (2/x) https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/may/21/blackrock-investor-climate-crisis-blackrock-assets">https://www.theguardian.com/business/...
While Fink has vowed to divest from fossil fuel companies, BlackRock remains the world’s largest investor in new coal plants. (3/x) https://prospect.org/environment/blackrock-s-greenwashing-threatens-undermine-climate-action/">https://prospect.org/environme...
Mark Gallogly heads Centerbridge Partners, a private equity fund that bought Puerto Rican distressed debt for pennies on the dollar and tried to hide the transactions using shell companies. (4/x) http://inthesetimes.com/features/union_pensions_puerto_rico_debt_bondholders.html">https://inthesetimes.com/features/...
Tony James, a @blackstone executive, has a) donated tens of thousands to Republican politicians, b) created the original private equity trade group, and c) said ‘shadow banking’ was “one of those Orwellian terms that can undermine critical thought.” (5/x) https://www.wsj.com/articles/tony-james-shedding-some-light-on-shadow-banking-1393888946?tesla=y">https://www.wsj.com/articles/...
Last but not least, investment banker Roger Altman’s company @Evercore worked on huge corporate mergers, including the Dow/Dupont merger and the Pfizer/Abbott Labs merger. (6/x) https://www.reuters.com/article/us-dow-m-a-dupont-idUSKBN0TU1B220151211">https://www.reuters.com/article/u...
As @JoeBiden highlights the Trump Administration& #39;s corrupt and incompetent political appointees, he ought to follow his own promises and not allow corporate interests to infiltrate his government. (7/x) https://joebiden.com/governmentreform/">https://joebiden.com/governmen...
Our Treasury Secretary must be someone who will stand up to big corporations and protect the interests of everyday Americans (8/x) https://democracyjournal.org/magazine/personnel-is-policy/">https://democracyjournal.org/magazine/...
Progressive groups should continue to monitor names put forth by Biden bundlers, many of whom are players in the financial industry and would likely benefit from the appointments of any of these picks (9/x) https://cepr.net/who-exactly-are-joe-biden-and-pete-buttigieg-s-bundlers/">https://cepr.net/who-exact...