Mark Brenner, PhD Biography

"There was a joke about this when they were talking about bailing out the banks...This is Goldman Sachs socialism, we basically take the risk on the public's shoulders without getting any say over what happens at the top. And I think that we really need to turn that around. I mean, if we're going to take a stake in these companies we need to take effective control of them and I think that means really pushing the factories in the midwest to be doing a very, very different set of things... but that's not going to happen if we leave the decisions in the hands of the people who got us into this mess."