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Consultant: Five years ago, during his tenure as Vice President,
Joe Biden had an
intensive
exchange
with
Brian Deese
(right).
Now the lawyer becomes his most important economic leader.
Photo: ZUMA Wire / imago images
Most recently, US presidents were looking for their top financiers at Goldman Sachs:
George W. Bush
(74) brought Goldman CEO
Hank Paulso
n (74) as finance minister, and
Bill Clinton's
(74) finance minister
Robert Rubin
(82) also came from the investment bank.
Donald Trump
(74) made Goldman COO
Gary Cohn
(60) head of his National Economic Council (NEC).
Trump's Treasury Secretary
Steven Mnuchin
(58) was with Goldman for 17 years and became a partner there - like his father.
With
Joe Biden
(78) things are now different.
Prominent Goldman alumni are missing from his team;
only
Gary Gensler
(63), who was with the investment bank until 1997, is supposed to lead the SEC.
For this, three of the future top people from the world's largest asset manager Blackrock: NEC boss
Brian Deese
(42), Vice Treasury Secretary
Adewale ("Wally") Adeyemo
(39) and
Mike Pyle
, the chief economist of Vice President Kamala Harris (56).
All three had made a career in the Obama administration at a young age before Blackrock boss
Larry Fink
(68) signed them.
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