[PEN-L:32878] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: 'Neill goes, Bono stays

[Eugene Coyle <eugenecoyle@xxxxxxx>]

Doug,

	Brown Brothers Harriman is a partnership and doesn't have a board.  You
are correct of course about the close ties with rich Elis.  There is a
Harvard connection as well -- Ebbie Gerry, descendent of the inventor of
the gerrymander, a polo player and a very nice human being is, I think a
Harvard man.

Gene Coyle

Doug Henwood wrote:
> Eugene Coyle wrote:
>
> > I think it can be said that Bush's money comes out of Wall Street
> > before oil.  His grandfather, Prescott Bush was a partner (while in
> > the Senate) at Brown Brothers Harriman, 59 Wall St., a commercial bank
> > AND member of the NYSE.  Brown Brothers Harriman was, early in its
> > life, an entreprenurial gang.
>
>
> At one point, the board of BBH was something like 70% (Skull &)
> Bonesmen. Of course, all three Bushes are Bonesmen <>.
>
> >   The Bush money (maternal as well) is Wall St. money.
>
>
> Look at his admin. In their book The Global Political Economy of Israel,
> Jonathan Nitzan and Shimshon Bichler argue that there's a
> weapondollar-petrodollar axis in politics that thrives on oil conflicts
> in the Middle East. That's Bush's people. That's different from the Wall
> Street/high tech capital that dominates the Dems, and had their way in
> the Clinton years.
>
> Doug