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Gene Sperling and Wall Street's Giant Sucking Sound

Harvard Business Review

Shaw, and $135,000 for one speech at Goldman Sachs. Goldman wasn't paying Sperling to lobby, it was paying him to work on a philanthropic endeavor (educating girls and women in poor countries) that was and is close to his heart. After the crisis of 2007 and 2008, though, that became a pretty tough argument to make.

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