# Professor Roy Smith comments on Donald Trump's relationship to Wall Street

1 Faculty News May 23, 2016 ![The New York Times Logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/uat_027320.jpg?itok=W8xBr66g)>

Excerpt from [The New York Times](http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/24/business/dealbook/donald-trump-relationship-bankers.html) -- "'His roots and connections on Wall Street are fairly shallow,' said [Roy C. Smith](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/roy-smith), a former partner at Goldman Sachs who teaches finance at New York University."

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