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Your Guide to Wall Street Incest

For someone who’s supposed to save us from the Wall Street mess, Henry Paulson is awfully connected to its architects. The folks over at ProPublica have crafted a nifty tool that sketches the Treasury Secretary’s various relations. Through his tenures at the New York Stock Exchange, Goldman Sachs, and the U.S. Treasury, Paulson’s been in bed with pretty much everyone—the heads of Merrill Lynch, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and Bear Stearns. He has, however, shown some discrimination: Just about the only guy without a direct link to Paulson is Dick Fuld.

Posted at 2:25 PM, Oct 16, 2008
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