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Gene Sperling and Wall Street's Giant Sucking Sound

Harvard Business Review

I've had a few encounters with Gene through the years, and he's always struck me as an endearing (and rare) combination of policy wonk, political operator, and genuine mensch. Shaw, and $135,000 for one speech at Goldman Sachs. Shaw and what he made at the White House). million in one year from the hedge fund D.E.

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