This is news to me. Haven't heard about this before....
"...an investment banker in New York said, “I was at my final day of interviews at JPMorgan during my senior year in college. They took students
from Princeton, Yale, Harvard, U-Penn and Brigham Young University [a Mormon university in Utah]. I was like, ‘what the hell? BYU?’ Then I slowly
realised how many Mormons there are on Wall Street.”
It just keeps getting better....
"Religious sociologist Rodney Stark, at Baylor University in Texas, has predicted that the LDS will in the latter half of this century become the
first new world religion since Islam – just one reason that Smith, who founded the church in the 1830s, is sometimes described as the “American
Mohammed”. "
and....
"In some ways, BYU (Brigham Young University) looks every inch an elite American institution. In others it is starkly different: the day I visit, the
campus is at a standstill for a sermon from a church elder. I have come to meet Kim Smith and Jim Engebretsen, two former executives at Goldman Sachs
and Lehman Brothers and now both professors at BYU’s Marriott School of Business. Smith says Mormons were rare on Wall Street when he first got a
job in the early 1980s. But, as he puts it, “banks like nothing more than finding an undervalued stock. And Mormon graduates were just that: a stock
which was cheaper to buy, and which over-performed.”"
"In the meantime, the calls are coming from headhunters. Scott Nycum, a managing director at JPMorgan, confirmed that BYU is now seen as a top source
of graduate talent: “These students are bright, mature, well-educated, share our emphasis on adhering to highest standards of integrity, have
impressive work ethic and are very team-oriented,” he says. “They fit extremely well with our firm’s corporate culture.”
www.ft.com...
So, are the Mormons being duped by the elite too??!! With Mitt Romney leading the way??!!
edit on 14-11-2011 by Deetermined because: (no reason given)