Ted Cruz’s Goldman Sachs Problem

Senator Ted Cruz, of Texas, likes to portray himself as the straight-talking, shit-kicking, anti-establishment type. Last summer, when he was languishing in the G.O.P. primary polls, he went to the Heritage Foundation, in D.C., up the street from Union Station, and declared war on the “Washington cartel”—a cozy club of big banks, major corporations, and shadowy lobbyists that, he claimed, was quietly pulling the strings in the nation’s capital. “It operates like OPEC,” Cruz said, according to a report at Fortune.com. “I don’t know, like sheikhs, if they actually wear robes. But they nonetheless on a daily basis are conspiring against the American people.”

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