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Lloyd Blankfein, the former chairman and CEO of Goldman Sachs, has been keeping himself busy trading stocks and commodities, but would rather be serving in government.
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Lloyd Blankfein still gets up in the middle of the night to check the markets. It’s a habit he developed over four decades at Goldman Sachs Group Inc., first as a precious-metals trader and, eventually, as chairman and chief executive officer of Wall Street’s most storied firm.
Except Blankfein left Goldman in 2018. Today, he’s 67, retired and, truth be told, not doing much. The “gap year” he thought he was taking has turned into three.