Alan Cheslow

Out of curiousity, I started playing with a concept mapping tool tonight and began plotting the corporate and political relationships between the players behind the recent economic collapse.

You can view the full map here.

Some interesting connections:

• Henry M. Paulson, the Secretary of the Treasury is the former CEO of Goldman Sachs
• Geoffrey T. Boisi was a Senior General Partner at Goldman Sachs and is a member of the board of Freddie Mac
• James A. Johnson is a member of the board of Goldman Sachs and was the CEO of Fannie Mae and Managing Director of Lehman Brothers
• Robert Zoellick, the President of the World Bank, was both a Vice Chairman for Goldman Sachs and an Executive Vice President of Fannie Mae
• Stephen Friedman was both a General Partner at Goldman Sachs and a member of the board of Fannie Mae
• Ben Bernanke (Chairman of the Federal Reserve), Gary L. Seevers (VP and Partner of Goldman Sachs), and Martin Feldstein (Board member of AIG) all served as Chairman of the US Council of Economic Advisers.
• Anastasia D. Kelly served as both VP of Fannie Mae and General Counsel of AIG

That’s some club, huh? And this doesn’t even count the multitude of other connections that arise when you include organizations like the Bilderberg Group, Council on Foreign Relations, Trilateral Commission, and Group of 30.