<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 24px; "><h1 class="entry-title" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'PT Sans', san-serif; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 26px; line-height: 28px; ">Occupy and Inequality: Zakaria Listens to CEOs</h1></span><div><a href="http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/10/15/occupy-and-inequality-zakaria-listens-to-ceos/">http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/10/15/occupy-and-inequality-zakaria-listens-to-ceos/</a></div><div><br></div><div><div style="color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 24px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-left: 0px; "><strong>CNN</strong>'s Fareed Zakaria has a reputation as being what some might consider the Thinking Man's Pundit.</div><div style="color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 24px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-left: 0px; ">It doesn't really match up with <a href="http://fair.org/extra-online-articles/fareed-zakaria-spokesperson-for-the-global-elite/" style="color: rgb(89, 109, 159); text-decoration: underline; ">his record</a>, which is something more like the Wealthy Man's Pundit–as in 2010, when he <a href="http://www.fair.org/blog/2010/04/26/someone-has-to-defend-goldman-sachs/" style="color: rgb(89, 109, 159); text-decoration: underline; ">wrote a column</a>defending Goldman Sachs, which the <strong>Washington Post</strong> helpfully headlined "Cool the Goldman Rage."</div><div style="color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 24px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-left: 0px; ">Zakaria dedicated a portion of his October 13 <strong>CNN</strong> <a href="http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1310/13/fzgps.01.html" style="color: rgb(89, 109, 159); text-decoration: underline; ">show</a> to a discussion of income inequality and the second anniversary of Occupy Wall Street, with, wouldn't you know it, Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein.</div><div style="color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 24px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-left: 0px; ">As Zakaria noted, the segment was actually part of a discussion he moderated at the Clinton Global Initiative. In addition to Blankfein, Zakaria also spoke to Jim Rogers, the soon-to-be-retiring CEO of Duke Energy, and Denis O'Brien, who owns a company called Digicel.</div><div style="color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 24px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-left: 0px; ">Zakaria previewed the discussion by saying, "How did we get so unequal and what responsibility do corporations have to fix the problem?" Blankfein unsurprisingly comes out against the idea of "income redistribution" as a fix to inequality; presumably he prefers to continue the way income is currently being redistributed–<a title="Mother Jones: It's the Inequality, Stupid" href="http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2011/02/income-inequality-in-america-chart-graph" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(89, 109, 159); text-decoration: underline; ">upward</a>.</div><div style="color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 24px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-left: 0px; ">O'Brien, an Irish telecom billionaire, expresses some sympathy for Occupy–"I think we should be listening to some of the things that these people are saying." It's a somewhat odd message from someone who apparently changed his official residence to Malta for tax purposes...</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#555555" face="Georgia, serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 17px; line-height: 24px;"><a href="http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/10/15/occupy-and-inequality-zakaria-listens-to-ceos/">http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/10/15/occupy-and-inequality-zakaria-listens-to-ceos/</a></span></font></div><div style="color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 24px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-left: 0px; "> (<strong>Village</strong>, <a title="Village: Denis O’Brien: a complicated career and dubious ethics" href="http://www.villagemagazine.ie/index.php/2011/12/denis-obrien-a-complicated-career-and-dubious-ethics/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(89, 109, 159); text-decoration: underline; ">12/14/11</a>).</div></div><div>
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