‘Highly ethical’ business students don’t like Wall Street

They are so smart! If nothing else our generation has given them high moral standards and the awful truth about banks and politics.

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Wall Street is facing an “incredibly disturbing” trend.

Students at business schools who think of themselves as “highly ethical” aren’t interested in a career on Wall Street. They don’t see the big banks as moral enough for their standards.

That’s according to William Dudley, the president of the New York Federal Reserve. Dudley knows a thing or two about ethics at big banks. He used to work at Goldman Sachs and now Dudley leads one of the watchdogs in charge of overseeing Wall Street’s activities.

Dudley was bothered by a recent conversation with business school deans. They told him that business school students who consider themselves “highly ethical” are choosing not to work in financial services.

“As long as we have that self selection out of the financial industry by people who view themselves as highly ethical…that tells you we have a problem,” Dudley said at the Economic Club…

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Bernie Sanders puts Wall Street on notice: “On day one, I am appointing a special committee to investigate the crimes on Wall Street”

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Bernie Sanders has long described himself as a democratic socialist and has found himself fending off mischaracterizations of his political ideology quite often on the campaign trail, so much so that he plans to hold a major address on Thursdayexplicitly detailing what it means to be a democratic socialist. Ahead of Sanders’ big speech, Rolling Stone is out with its new cover feature on his political revolution and as an interview with the candidate while he was on the campaign trail back in May reveals, the populist seems just as committed to major reform as ever — starting with Wall Street.

The Vermont senator told Rolling Stone’s Tim Dickinson that his first course of action upon entering the White House would be to go after the Wall Street executives responsible for the 2008 global financial collapse. Not one Wall Street executive has ever been held criminally liable for the rampant…

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