Unless you have a well-connected father there are no jobs in private companies.

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If your personal life choices happen to line up with the interests of the beltway power brokers and their well-connected friends, you get the unfair advantages.

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And in the free-for-all, cafeteria food fight that is the stock market, how can you possibly get an edge against all those well-connected hedge funds, large institutions and the investment banks trading their own books of business?

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"You can plan all you want, but you can't get the same experience as with a well-connected guide, " says Kessler.

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These are necessary choices if you're willing to ask the well-off and the well-connected, as the President has said we should and as the public has said we should, to contribute, to be part of the solution.

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What you really want to know is diversity, and inter-dependency how well-connected people are across the different segments.

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