[GOPJ]

...trend that has been snowballing for decades: the gradual takeover of the government by a small class of connected insiders, who used money to control elections, buy influence and systematically weaken financial regulations.

Interesting financial/political analysis ping.

[lentulusgracchus]

David Horowitz has been warning us for years that "it all comes together at the top".

Here's the proof of the pudding: Presidents of both parties getting their Treasury secretaries from the same tiny, polluted pool of talent.

By the way, I read last year that one of Goldman's junior executives, a prince-in-waiting, was dating Chelsea Clinton. Think that's far enough "inside politics"?