Goldman Sachs CEO: Trump Not a Dangerous President

[think]

Blankfein also states in the interview he'd consider a position in the Trump administration but no one has contacted him.

Goldman Sachs CEO: Trump Not a Dangerous President

Contrary to fears in Europe, Donald Trump will not be a “dangerous” U.S. president, said Lloyd Blankfein, the president and chief executive of America’s second-largest investment bank, Goldman Sachs, in an exclusive interview with Handelsblatt.

Asked whether Mr. Trump, who has proposed building a wall along the Mexican border and stopping the flow of Muslims into the United States, would be “dangerous,” the 62-year-old Mr. Blankfein sounded confident that Mr. Trump, despite his rhetoric, will be a pragmatic leader.

“I don’t think so,” Mr. Blankfein, who supported Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, said in an interview earlier this month at the Hotel Adlon in Berlin. “He’s a very smart guy, a businessman…I am not pessimistic at all because he won.”

As an investment bank, Goldman Sachs is in the risk-management business, Mr. Blankfein said, and Ms. Clinton, a known quantity, was a more easy choice for financiers like him. But “Mr. Trump may turn out to be a much better president than anyone else might have been in that place,’’ he added. “He’s just less of a known quantity as a politician.”


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https://global.handelsblatt.com/breaking/goldmans-blankfein-trump-not-a-dangerous-president

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. He's probably not a danger to Goldman Sachs.

But to everybody else....?

[think]

2. Yup..

[RazBerryBeret]

3. sure, sure... not dangerous at all..

if he can help your business.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/kenrapoza/2016/12/09/goldman-sachs-russia/#4708c9373d2b

[think]

4. Kind of shocking considering the current Russia/election uproar but then again not so much...

[Madam45for2923]

5. Wow! Trump is a easy way to test people!

[Wounded Bear]

6. Certainly not to Mr Blankfein...

[jalan48]

7. Sounds like Goldman Sachs is an important part of our government.

[Crunchy Frog]

8. Thank God. I was worried there for a minute.

[dae]

9. Goody, I'll go to sleep now and wake up in 8 years

or so, maybe.

[SticksnStones]

10. What's a banker's definition of dangerous?

Because I'm quite certain it doesn't match mine ~

[MBS]

11. The fact that he even has to address that question

is damning in itself.

Given the number of Goldman Sachs execs already tapped for Trump's infinite-conflict-of-interest cabinet, I'm not surprised by the CEO's (grotesquely misplaced) optimism.