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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. Shaw, Summers wasn't just a big-name figurehead, but actually involved himself with the firm's investment strategies (or so I've heard both from Summers and people at D.E. Shaw and what he made at the White House). Summers had reaped even bigger Wall Street paydays — $5.2

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