On MSNBC a moment ago, Harold Ford Jr. just asked, “Can Romney recover from his association with private equity?” The demonization of the free market is complete.

This is, of course, in the context of a discussion of the Republican primary.

UPDATE: @EarlDean71 calls my attention to the fact that Harold Ford Jr. joined Merrill Lynch in 2007 and stayed on after its sale to Bank of America, and is now a senior client manager at Morgan Stanley.

A bit more on his duties and compensation there:

As a vice chairman at Merrill Lynch, however, Mr. Ford benefited from an unusual arrangement that paid him generously regardless of how he and his firm perform. In 2007, he began working at the firm under a contract that guaranteed him annual compensation of at least $2 million, The Times said, citing two people with direct knowledge of the deal, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the agreement is confidential. With a bonus, his pay could well exceed that figure.
His guaranteed pay was twice that of the Merrill Lynch chief executive who hired him, E. Stanley O’Neal. Mr. O’Neal’s contract assured him a base salary of $700,000, with the rest of his compensation not guaranteed, and paid out only as a bonus, records show. In some years that bonus was quite large. In 2006, for example, Mr. O’Neal’s bonus was $18.5 million in cash and nearly $27 million in restricted stock, according to Equilar, a compensation-research firm.

Ford commutes to that job from his five-bedroom apartment in the trendy neighborhood of Chelsea, Manhattan, that he purchased for $3.15 million.