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Is Goldman’s Gary Cohn ready to step in for Lloyd Blankfein?

Once impatient, now more polished, the Wall Street bank’s president has grown into the No 2 role

Is Goldman’s Gary Cohn ready to step in for Lloyd Blankfein?
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Last Friday, Goldman Sachs president Gary Cohn hosted China’s finance minister, Lou Jiwei, in a private meeting in midtown Manhattan. On Tuesday, Cohn jetted to San Francisco to watch his friend and client Elon Musk unveil a new electric sport-utility vehicle for Tesla Motors.

Cohn has come a long way.

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