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What, one wonders, is the ultimate source of autocratic corruption? Is a certain type of person more likely to strive to become an autocrat because they see power as the clearest path to extreme wealth? Or does the belief in one’s own infallibility lead autocrats to lose the ability to discern between moral and immoral? Or might it be, in some cases, that the wealth one already has and continues to amass is erroneously seen as proof of the rectitude of all that one does? Gold-leafed narcissism, if you will?

Der Spiegel & Charles Hawley

America has a founding habit it has never broken: when powerful people get caught, the country finds a reason to look the other way. It calls this “healing.” It calls this “moving on.” It calls it “the good of the nation.” It is, every single time, cowardice dressed up as grace, and every single time it teaches the next crook that the penalty for burning down the house is a book deal.

Dean Blundell

50% of a Mooch

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Anthony Scaramucci used to work at Goldman Sachs before founding his own investment company SkyBridge Capital in 2005. He supposedly supported Obama in 2008 and Mitt Romney in 2012, but…

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