Who's At The Table?
- mrymntcpw
- 10 hours ago
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"IN BILLIONAIRES WE TRUST" Really? Yes. Like it, or not!
In an oligarchy, the extreme concentration of wealth leads to the extreme concentration of power, allowing an ultra-rich few to tighten their control over governments, economies, and media. When power belongs to just a few, democracy suffers, as extreme inequality worsens.
-Oxfam
A Royal Table
Ruppert Murdock
Apple's Chief Executive, Tim Cook accompanies Tiffiany Trump
But wait...
Trump's State Dinner for Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman of Saudi Arabia.
To see who attended, click on the link under the photo below.
Never before has there been so much concentration of ownership, sector after sector, power of Wall Street…and never before in American history — and we better talk about this — have the people on top had so much political power. We can’t go around the world saying, ‘Oh, well, you know, in Russia Putin has an oligarchy.’ Well, we got our oligarchy here too.
-Senator Bernie Sanders
Bankers:
Jamie Dimon, JPMorgan’s chief executive: A combination of salary, bonuses, dividends, stock grants and appreciation in his allotment of the bank’s shares yielded [him] roughly $770 million in 2025 according to the company’s disclosures. The bank’s stock rose 34 percent last year.
For the chief executives of Citi, whose shares rose more than 65 percent in 2025 after the bank slashed tens of thousands of jobs in a years long restructuring, and Goldman Sachs (shares up 53 percent), the paydays were more than $100 million each.
The chief executive at Capital One (shares up 36 percent), Richard Fairbank, made more than $300 million, including proceeds from stock he sold during the year. His compensation included a $30 million bonus after the Trump administration waved through the lender’s acquisition of Discover Financial.
Jet-setting with the rich and powerful
From the NYT Magazine:
[Alan] Dershowitz told us that Epstein showed up at his Chilmark home later that day toting vintage Champagne. The pair took a walk around a nearby pond, and Epstein, the inveterate name-dropper, informed Dershowitz that he was close with Harvard figures, including Larry Summers, an economics professor then serving in the Clinton administration. But the main topic was Wexner, who Epstein said had taught him “how to be rich.” Wexner’s birthday was approaching, and Epstein wanted Dershowitz to attend a dinner in his honor. Dershowitz ended up flying to Ohio on one of Epstein’s planes along with Senator John Glenn. Shimon Peres — the recent Israeli prime minister, whom Epstein met years earlier during the Middle East trip with Representative Owens — was among the other dinner guests. (The following year, Forester hosted a party on Martha’s Vineyard where Epstein mingled with guests including Dershowitz and Britain’s Prince Andrew.)
"IN BILLIONAIRES WE TRUST"
Capitalism unbounded.
In conclusion,
Power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts absolutely.
-Lord Acton, British historian
CPW
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