As financial crisis shook the nation, Trump’s team saw payoff
By Victoria Guida
Millions of average Americans lost their livelihoods and homes as the global financial crisis spiraled out of control a decade ago. But not President Donald Trump and his administration’s top financial advisers, who treated the meltdown as a chance to get richer. …Either way, “opportunistic ‘vulture’ investors will always find a way to make money, and the crisis left a lot of carrion,” said Karen Petrou, managing partner at Federal Financial Analytics.
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/09/15/trump-financial-crisis-money-ross-mnuchin-825754
