Wall Street veterans have a strong influence on 77-year-old Joe Biden, and some even look to high offices in Washington.
This is reported by the agency “Bloomberg,” citing its own sources.
According to the media, the U.S. financial elite hopes to benefit from a possible victory of Biden in the November elections. These aspirations are explained by the fact that bankers have been writing large checks to the Democrats for decades.
Ted Kaufmann, a close adviser to the Democrat presidential candidate, argued that the principles laid down in Biden’s campaign would form the basis of personnel decisions.
Charles Myers, head of Signum Global Advisors, also noted that from Biden’s point of view, it was “a very tactful and very smart move” to remove bankers from the economic policy task force.
“But that doesn’t mean that in the end, the choice of cabinet members will be determined by these people,” he added.
According to Bloomberg, one of the top managers of Wall Street is already hoping to get a position at the Pentagon, another representative of the global financial elite is interested in the position of head of the Ministry of Finance.
Charles Myers assured that he does not want to leave for the public sector, but stressed that Biden has enough bankers who want to get an office in Washington. In particular, he pointed to the vice-president of the bank “Morgan Stanley” Tom Nides, founder of the bank “Evercore” Roger Altman, head of the investment company “BlackRock” Larry Finck and others.