6 hours ago by Lex

The boss of Goldman Sachs claimed yesterday that bankers were doing ‘God’s work’. Lloyd Blankfein is the latest money man to defend bumper bank bonuses, suggesting a return to massive profits should be welcomed. However, the chief executive of the Wall Street firm admitted people were ‘p***** off, m ...

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2 days ago by culturalcapitalism

is this from today or a year ago?

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2 days ago by Josh Price

The unemployment rate sits at 10.2%, the highest it has been since 1983. What happened to saving and c reating jobs with your wasteful stimulus package, Chairman Obama? Remember that? It was supposed to save the economy, just like Bush and Paulson’s TARP debacle. Get ready folks. We are headed for a ...

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5 days ago by Molly

When I was young we once played a fantastic game with this name. It involved drawing up a list of items which would be very hard to access, then assembling a week later in teams and thieving said items. The most daring raids garnered the most points. I was a wimp even in those days and spent much ti ...

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5 days ago by Crawford

P lease don’t be offended by the graphic. I am just offering to lead you through a little bit of a jungle where even the self-proclaimed Tarzans are lost. There are many others out there that insist you put your trust in them. They are dangerous in their hubris. They are either economists or other p ...

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5 days ago by AdvisorAnalyst

Felix Salmon shares a juicy morsel from New York Times columnist, Andrew Ross Sorkin’s latest book, Too Big To Fail. It details then Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson’s secret meeting (up) with Goldman Sachs’ board of directors who happened to be in Russia at the same time. Here is an excerpt from Sor ...

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6 days ago by POH

Michael Moore’s new film journeys into the broken lives of low income Americans suffering from the sub-prime melt-down and so-called global financial crisis, and also into US corridors of executive and corporate power. Naturally its not a pretty picture! Moore’s usual cheap technique of walking up t ...

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6 days ago by Max Keiser and Stacy Herbert

Stacy Summary: More forensic examination of Goldman Sachs’ role during the days that its former Chief Executive, Hank Paulson, was bailing out the financial players. And for these neo-feudal times, here is the Daily Gulag from @adamc Goldman Sachs: Reasonable Doubt (Janet Tavakoli) Sophisticated cou ...

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7 days ago by jr

Posted in ben bernanke, economy, hank paulson, matt taibbi, news, politics, thom hartmann, video

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8 days ago by DailyBail

A funny piece this week from Paul Farrell of Marketwatch Yes, Halloween is a perfect holiday to commemorate how the Goldman Conspiracy and Wall Street's other too-greedy-to-fail gangster banks have returned from the dead, like mummies, ghouls, zombies and vampires, rising out of their tombs, crypts, ...

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