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奥巴马向投资银行发表演讲吸金

Former president Barack Obama is reportedly earning up to $400,000 an hour for making speeches to investment banks.

The 56-year-old has been criticized by several Democratic senators who said they are “troubled” by the huge amount of money he is taking home. Mr Obama is reported to have received the fee for giving a lecture to clients of asset manager Northern Trust Corporation in New York in September.

This month he will take home another $400,000 for speaking to investment bank Cantor Fitzgerald. The firm’s CEO, Howard Lutnick said, “Everybody would like to come. Hopefully, we will really talk about the Affordable Care Act in interesting ways, which I think is really cool.”

But before entering the White House in 2009, Mr Obama said that he had not run “to be helping out the fat cat bankers on Wall Street”. His spokesman defended the lectures, saying that he has only spoken “true to his values”. His great income has also helped Mr Obama contribute $2 million to youth programs in Chicago.