re: #33 Sergey Romanov

This is from Wiki, about how Joe Kennedy made his money. Let’s see how comparable it is to how Mitt makes his.

To deny that campaign partisanship has played a part in the perceptions of these people would be kinda naive. Especially to a person bereft of any party loyalty at all such as myself.

Business career

Kennedy made a large fortune as a stock market and commodity investor and by investing in real estate and a wide range of industries. He never built a significant business from scratch, but his timing as both buyer and seller was usually excellent. Sometimes he made use of inside information in ways which were legal at the time but were later outlawed. He later became the first chairman of the SEC. After his death, various gangsters including Frank Costello claimed to have associated with Kennedy. According to some accounts,[which?] Kennedy was associated in the “bear raid” that precipitated the Wall Street Crash of 1929, as well as much of the bootlegging activity that was common at the time.[citation needed] When Fortune magazine published its first list of the richest people in the United States in 1957, it placed him in the $200–400 million band[10] ($1.56–3.12 billion today[11]), meaning that it estimated him to be between the ninth and sixteenth richest person in the United States at that time.