One Of World's Biggest Banks Silences President's Favorite Banker

The New York Times:

One of the biggest banks in the world wants the president's favorite banker muzzled.

The banker, Robert Wolf, a top UBS executive in New York, is among President Obama's leading fund-raisers, building more than $500,000 for his re-election so far this year.

Read the whole story at The New York Times

Comments

[21stcenturyThinking]

06:09 PM on 06/21/2012

They are not coming to the Convention, they can't golf with him any more.

Bye, bye, Barry, cry baby good bye...

[notforthesetimes]

04:58 PM on 06/21/2012

Don't worry, this guy will soon be the US ambassador to ___________ (fill in the blank) as do most of o'scamya's "bundlers".

[gomezrules]

02:35 PM on 06/21/2012

So Obama will pal around with these Top One Percenters, and we all know he will readily take their money, then he stabs them in the back via the reports his admin issues. What a pal. What a guy!

This is exactly why companies are sitting on their assets, not risking them on things like expansion and the hiring that goes with that. They can't believe the guy, be it in his words or deeds!

[romus]

02:28 PM on 06/21/2012

Not A Millionaire? You're A Jackass If You Vote Republican
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=33f_1334762205

[riverhouse]

01:21 PM on 06/21/2012

The majority of posters simply read the headline, make up in their heads what it is about, and then write such nonsense as to reveal to those who did read the article that the posters know absolutely nothing about the subject to which they are offering an opinion. It's the typical bagger lack of initiative on display.

[jcaunter]

01:48 PM on 06/21/2012

It's easy to see why someone would say "the private sector is doing fine" if all he ever does is hang out with rich folk who give Obama hundreds of thousands of dollars, eh?

[Steve Rockett]

01:18 PM on 06/21/2012

Amazingly stupid act. If one of my employees knows and hangs with the president, I encourage that relationship, even if I wear jack boots at night. This is the most powerful man in the world and they are blocking their employee's positive relationship.

[jcaunter]

01:49 PM on 06/21/2012

Obama is a mid-level employee. Jamie Dimon is the the most powerful man in the world.

[Steve Rockett]

02:22 PM on 06/21/2012

Not in my world.

[ron ray]

01:17 PM on 06/21/2012

a responsible bank that didn't need tarp bailout money to survive.

[cats530]

02:08 PM on 06/21/2012

Not TARP, but 283 billion per GAO audit. Read it and weep.

[JoAnn Kennedy]

05:37 PM on 06/21/2012

Cats look at this right off the presses of the Rolling Stone, Matt Taibbi writes,
More recently, a major international investigation has been launched into the manipulation of Libor, the interbank lending index that is used to calculate global interest rates for products worth more than $3 trillion a year. If and when that case is presented to the public at trial – there are several major civil suits in the works here in the States – we may yet find out that the world's most powerful banks have, for years, been fixing the prices of almost every adjustable-rate vehicle on earth, from mortgages and credit cards to interest-rate swaps and even currencies.

But USA v. Carollo marks the first time we actually got incontrovertible evidence that Wall Street has moved into this cartel-type brand of criminality

Read more: http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/the-scam-wall-street-learned-from-the-mafia-20120620#ixzz1ySxdSHgW

[What Ev]

01:12 PM on 06/21/2012

A ‘Fat Cat’ with the President’s Ear...lie down with money get up with fleas

Evil rich guy but has a great short game...good cigars...hookers...alcohol...lobbyist

[Steve Rockett]

01:19 PM on 06/21/2012

That is how republicans think.

[No Mo O Care]

01:07 PM on 06/21/2012

...

O is never gonna get rid of that slice now...

[TalkingtoDumbazzes]

12:50 PM on 06/21/2012

Hey did you hear about the presidents new aspirin tax? He signed another executive order to tax aspirin because it's white and it works!

[Letstalkaboutit]

01:03 PM on 06/21/2012

This is good, made me laugh!

[cbsguards]

01:12 PM on 06/21/2012

did you hear about the Patriot that lost his mind. They thought telling racist jokes was funny

[Squiggie]

12:50 PM on 06/21/2012

Just a bunch of parasitic weasels vying for the "Top Weasel" award.
These folks are sociopathic bloodsuckers who would evict their own grandmother for a buck.
And for all of you who think that Windsock Willard will be any less a puppet of these vermin, GET A CLUE!

[pcs5141]

12:49 PM on 06/21/2012

Another Obama special.

[DarkKnightLBC]

12:46 PM on 06/21/2012

Obama bought and paid for by Wall Street... He still has his buddies in the administration from goldman sachs..so he still has his banker buddies to keep him company and tell him what to do for the elites

[cbsguards]

01:12 PM on 06/21/2012

Did you not read that Wall Street is not supporting Obama I guess you all just like to think what would be bad not actualy deal with the facts

[ron ray]

01:18 PM on 06/21/2012

and... this is a swiss bank that didn't get in subprime gambling trouble and didn't need the tarp bailout. the opposite of wall street.

[janmB]

12:24 PM on 06/21/2012

Its the SYSTEM !!! It's not any one candidates fault....they need funds. They ALL do.
All I hear is the media talking about it.....people talking about it.....but nothing changes with the way elections are held and campaigns are run. It's all talk ...so why even bother.

[iflew]

12:23 PM on 06/21/2012

Hello Gitmo Brig? Please prepare me a cell. I have a banker I want you to keep for a while.