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http://thehill.com/homenews/news/330337-obama-to-net-400k-for-wall-street-speech-report

Former President Barack Obama has agreed to speak at a Wall Street conference for $400,000, according to a new report.

Obama will appear at Cantor Fitzgerald LP’s healthcare conference in September, Fox Business Network first reported Monday.

Fox Business said it confirmed Obama’s appearance with senior people at Cantor, a financial services firm.

Obama will serve as the keynote speaker for one day at the company's event, sources there told Fox Business.
The network's sources said Obama has signed a contract for the speech with the mid-size investment bank in New York.

Cantor is waiting to coordinate with Obama before making a formal announcement, it continued.

Obama can reportedly back out of the arrangement if scheduling conflicts or other concerns arise, it added.

The former president’s reported speaking fee is nearly twice the price commanded by Hillary Clinton, the 2016 Democratic presidential nominee.

Obama reappeared on the public stage Monday, making his first public remarks since leaving the White House at the future site of his presidential library.

The former president did not mention President Trump or political commentary during his appearance at the University of Chicago.

“There’s a reason why I am always optimistic, even when things look like they are sometimes not going the way I want,” he said at a roundtable about youth participation in civic life. “And that’s because of young people like this.”

Obama’s remarks came just days before his successor reaches his 100th day in office.

ah
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Speaking fees are such a bullshit scam.

University's need to stop agreeing to pay so fucking much for this shit.
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Ah, the Ol' Clinton Cash Grab scam.
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pikachupwnage posted...

University's need to stop agreeing to pay so fucking much for this shit.

This isn't a university, it's a bond trading firm
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Just call him Barack Clinton
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pikachupwnage posted...

Speaking fees are such a bullshit scam.

University's need to stop agreeing to pay so fucking much for this shit.

It isn't a university, it's a financial firm according to the article.

Balkov posted...

pikachupwnage posted...

Speaking fees are such a bullshit scam.

University's need to stop agreeing to pay so fucking much for this shit.

It isn't a university, it's a financial firm according to the article.

Okay literally everyone needs to stop if.

Why the fuck is Obama speaking at a financial firm? What can he teach them that is worth 400K? How to increase their debt?
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But Obama
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pikachupwnage posted...

Balkov posted...

pikachupwnage posted...

Speaking fees are such a bullshit scam.

University's need to stop agreeing to pay so fucking much for this shit.

It isn't a university, it's a financial firm according to the article.

Okay literally everyone needs to stop if.

Why the fuck is Obama speaking at a financial firm? What can he teach them that is worth 400K? How to increase their debt?

I would imagine being the president during one of the worst financial crisis in national history and the subsequent recovery would be a worthwhile subject.

Good for him
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Balkov posted...

pikachupwnage posted...

Balkov posted...

pikachupwnage posted...

Speaking fees are such a bullshit scam.

University's need to stop agreeing to pay so fucking much for this shit.

It isn't a university, it's a financial firm according to the article.

Okay literally everyone needs to stop if.

Why the fuck is Obama speaking at a financial firm? What can he teach them that is worth 400K? How to increase their debt?

I would imagine being the president during one of the worst financial crisis in national history and the subsequent recovery would be a worthwhile subject.

Lol, ok.
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lww99 posted...

But Obama

You've mistaken me for a Trump supporter
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pikachupwnage posted...

Balkov posted...

pikachupwnage posted...

Speaking fees are such a bullshit scam.

University's need to stop agreeing to pay so fucking much for this shit.

It isn't a university, it's a financial firm according to the article.

Okay literally everyone needs to stop if.

Why the fuck is Obama speaking at a financial firm? What can he teach them that is worth 400K? How to increase their debt?

Publicity
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Hash-Brown posted...

Balkov posted...

pikachupwnage posted...

Balkov posted...

pikachupwnage posted...

Speaking fees are such a bullshit scam.

University's need to stop agreeing to pay so fucking much for this shit.

It isn't a university, it's a financial firm according to the article.

Okay literally everyone needs to stop if.

Why the fuck is Obama speaking at a financial firm? What can he teach them that is worth 400K? How to increase their debt?

I would imagine being the president during one of the worst financial crisis in national history and the subsequent recovery would be a worthwhile subject.

Lol, ok.

Excellent rebuttal.

Balkov posted...

Hash-Brown posted...

Balkov posted...

pikachupwnage posted...

Balkov posted...

pikachupwnage posted...

Speaking fees are such a bullshit scam.

University's need to stop agreeing to pay so fucking much for this shit.

It isn't a university, it's a financial firm according to the article.

Okay literally everyone needs to stop if.

Why the fuck is Obama speaking at a financial firm? What can he teach them that is worth 400K? How to increase their debt?

I would imagine being the president during one of the worst financial crisis in national history and the subsequent recovery would be a worthwhile subject.

Lol, ok.

Excellent rebuttal.

He's being paid off for his services to the financial industry while under public trust. They are not paying him $400 k for a history lesson.

Balkov posted...

Hash-Brown posted...

Balkov posted...

pikachupwnage posted...

Balkov posted...

pikachupwnage posted...

Speaking fees are such a bullshit scam.

University's need to stop agreeing to pay so fucking much for this shit.

It isn't a university, it's a financial firm according to the article.

Okay literally everyone needs to stop if.

Why the fuck is Obama speaking at a financial firm? What can he teach them that is worth 400K? How to increase their debt?

I would imagine being the president during one of the worst financial crisis in national history and the subsequent recovery would be a worthwhile subject.

Lol, ok.

Excellent rebuttal.

What shit did he do to help the markets? All he did was stick his nose into social issues.
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Good for him how much you think trump is gonna charge lmao!!!
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Ex-Kefiroth posted...

It's the exact same shit that turned people away from Hillary.

Stupid people.
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ASithLord7 posted...

Ex-Kefiroth posted...

It's the exact same shit that turned people away from Hillary.

Stupid people.

How'd that election go for you?
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Hash-Brown posted...

What s*** did he do to help the markets?

lol.

The stock market exploded under Obama, if you had money you'd know that.
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ASithLord7 posted...

Ex-Kefiroth posted...

It's the exact same shit that turned people away from Hillary.

Stupid people.

what a vintage rebel post
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M_Live posted...

Why does Wall Street pay people so much money to come and talk to them?

Because nobody wants to listen to John Doe talking. Get someone high profile like Obama though? People will listen.

Also, 400k is like a penny to wall street lol.
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M_Live posted...

Why does Wall Street pay people so much money to come and talk to them?

Good way to make public officials dependent on your success hence in your pocket.

A democrat never changes its stripes. Obama moving in on that Clinton money!
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100 days out of office and still triggering conservatives

Miss ya, Barry
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toptopmax posted...

Hash-Brown posted...

What s*** did he do to help the markets?

lol.

The stock market exploded under Obama, if you had money you'd know that.

And what did he do that caused that?
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The Federal Reserve, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, and Hank Paulson, President Bush’s Treasury Secretary, all played key roles in quelling the panic. But the Obama Administration finished the job, continuing the crisis measures that had been introduced, pushing through the rescue of the auto industry that Paulson had set in motion, and carrying out a set of stress tests that restored confidence in the big banks. The new Administration also boosted the over-all level of demand in the economy with an eight-hundred-and-forty-billion-dollar stimulus package, which featured temporary tax cuts and more federal spending. By the second half of 2009, the gross domestic product was growing again. By October, 2009, the unemployment rate had peaked, at ten per cent. If other policy decisions had been made, things could have been very different, and much worse.


http://www.newyorker.com/news/john-cassidy/obamas-economic-record-an-assessment

You will dismiss or try to bullshit your way out of it by saying something really stupid, then I'll just end up making fun of you again. Point is, people got rich under Obama. Really, stinking rich. Look at the Dow Jones, if you had 50k in the stock market in 2010, you'd probably be worth 150k at the end of his presidency.
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toptopmax posted...

The Federal Reserve, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, and Hank Paulson, President Bush’s Treasury Secretary, all played key roles in quelling the panic. But the Obama Administration finished the job, continuing the crisis measures that had been introduced, pushing through the rescue of the auto industry that Paulson had set in motion, and carrying out a set of stress tests that restored confidence in the big banks. The new Administration also boosted the over-all level of demand in the economy with an eight-hundred-and-forty-billion-dollar stimulus package, which featured temporary tax cuts and more federal spending. By the second half of 2009, the gross domestic product was growing again. By October, 2009, the unemployment rate had peaked, at ten per cent. If other policy decisions had been made, things could have been very different, and much worse.


http://www.newyorker.com/news/john-cassidy/obamas-economic-record-an-assessment

You will dismiss or try to bullshit your way out of it by saying something really stupid, then I'll just end up making fun of you again. Point is, people got rich under Obama. Really, stinking rich. Look at the Dow Jones, if you had 50k in the stock market in 2010, you'd probably be worth 150k at the end of his presidency.

So he continued doing what Bush had started and bailed out all the rich auto companies that were one of the causes to the problem? Yeah, he really did wonders.
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Ah, and he changed the goalposts. Why you don't argue with shit posters with egos.
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toptopmax posted...

Ah, and he changed the goalposts. Why you don't argue with shit posters with egos.

Because your whole argument is that because rich people got richer obviously Obama saved the economy.
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your original post was about how Obama did nothing for the market, which was straight up wrong. But keep shitposting it up. Its all you have...
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toptopmax posted...

your original post was about how Obama did nothing for the market, which was straight up wrong. But keep shitposting it up. Its all you have...

But he really didn't. He continued doing the stuff Bush had already started.
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He can't take FULL credit, but he can take credit.
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toptopmax posted...

He can't take FULL credit, but he can take credit.

No he can't. He didn't actually do anything.
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LOL @ people who complain about speaker fees but love the free market.
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Hash-Brown posted...

No he can't. He didn't actually do anything.

The stimulus package. And yes, he does get partial credit over the auto bailout. Keep crying about how Obama's rich and you're not.
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Doom_Art posted...

100 days out of office and still triggering conservatives

Miss ya, Barry

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toptopmax posted...

Hash-Brown posted...

No he can't. He didn't actually do anything.

The stimulus package. And yes, he does get partial credit over the auto bailout. Keep crying about how Obama's rich and you're not.

Lol, keep thinking he actually did anything. So much fucking denial. He didn't do shit. And don't try to act like the bailout was a good thing. They should have all went under because it was all their fault anyways.
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Hash-Brown posted...

Lol, keep thinking he actually did anything. So much f***ing denial. He didn't do s***. And don't try to act like the bailout was a good thing. They should have all went under because it was all their fault anyways.

It wasn't but you're moving the goalpost. Keep crying about rich people, surely its going to help you out. I don't even like Obama but I have to give credit where its due.
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if someone wanted to pay me to talk to them for $400,000 you really expect me to say no?
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toptopmax posted...

Keep crying about rich people

When did I do that? I only am bitching about scam artists and shitty presidents.
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YellowSUV posted...

LOL @ people who complain about speaker fees but love the free market.

In TC's defense, he doesn't.
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Ah, the invisible hand has deemed that $400,000 in Obama's pocket maximizes efficiency, who are we to judge otherwise?
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The firm and Obama have deemed that it's the amount they're willing to pay and accept, and it's their money to do what they want with. Not sure what the big controversy is.
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Lmao if Romney had been in office during a recovery conservatives would be sucking his dick nonstop.
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ASithLord7 posted...

The firm and Obama have deemed that it's the amount they're willing to pay and accept, and it's their money to do what they want with. Not sure what the big controversy is.

It shows Obama is just a con artist, like the Clintons.
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Oh look, lefties are figuring out that Obama is a piece of shit.

Better late than never, I guess.
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