2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumHillary made more in 12 speeches to big banks than most of us earn in a lifetime
Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders this week assailed rival Hillary Clinton for taking large speaking fees from the financial industry since leaving the State Department.
According to public disclosures, by giving just 12 speeches to Wall Street banks, private equity firms, and other financial corporations, Clinton made $2,935,000 from 2013 to 2015.
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Clintons most lucrative year was 2013, right after stepping down as secretary of state. That year, she made $2.3 million for three speeches to Goldman Sachs and individual speeches to Deutsche Bank, Morgan Stanley, Fidelity Investments, Apollo Management Holdings, UBS, Bank of America, and Golden Tree Asset Managers.
The following year, she picked up $485,000 for a speech to Deutsche Bank and an address to Ameriprise. Last year, she made $150,000 from a lecture before the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce.
To put these numbers into perspective, compare them to lifetime earnings of the median American worker. In 2011, the Census Bureau estimated that, across all majors, a bachelors degree holder can expect to earn about $2.4 million over his or her work life. A Pew Research analysis published the same year estimated that a typical high school graduate can expect to make just $770,000 over the course of his or her lifetime.
This means that in one year 2013 Hillary Clinton earned almost as much from 10 lectures to financial firms as most bachelors degree-holding Americans earn in their lifetimes and nearly four times what someone who holds only a high school diploma could expect to make.
https://theintercept.com/2016/01/08/hillary-clinton-earned-more-from-12-speeches-to-big-banks-than-most-americans-earn-in-their-lifetime/
tecelote
(5,122 posts)Take a tour of the Clinton family's $50,000-per-week rental mansion in the Hamptons
http://www.businessinsider.com/tour-hillary-clintons-50000-per-week-hamptons-rental-2015-8
Purveyor
(29,876 posts)Android3.14
(5,402 posts)Now cut that out.
MineralMan
(146,325 posts)Secretaries of State, either. Odd, huh?