We Went To Politico Chief Economics Reporter Ben White's A.M. Event So You Didn't Have To

This morning, Politico’s Ben White hosted his second Morning Money Breakfast Briefing, this time live from the Mayflower Hotel with Lloyd Blankfein, chairman and CEO of Goldman Sachs.

The two had an expected chat about the recovering economy, Washington’s role in the marketplace, the “too big to fail” mentality, immigration and a front-page NY Times story published today about Blankfein’s counterpart eying the top job, among other things.

Blankfein said the Times must have run out of Goldman stories to write and that the piece was “just gossip,” adding that he had no intention of leaving the company soon.

Wishing you would have been there? Don’t worry, we got up early to go so you didn’t have to, and here are few things we learned:

 

— The Mayflower Hotel has excellent coffee

— White and company like to be fashionably late (event was scheduled to start at 8 a.m.,

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