Who Will Hold Goldman Accountable? - Might Just be Everyday People

George Goehl, 11.13.2009

Executive Director, National People's Action

Whether it is Goldman Sachs' central role in the subprime crisis, handing out hundreds of millions in bonuses soon after receiving a $10 billion taxpa...

God to Goldman Sachs: You're Not Doing 'God's Work,' Joins Call for Protest at DC Headquarters

Art Levine, 11.13.2009

Contributing editor of The Washington Monthly

Sources close to God reported Thursday that the Supreme Being was angered at recent comments by Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein that's he's just a banker "doing God's work."

Blankfein God's Work

Jeff Danziger, 11.12.2009

Jeff Danziger is a political cartoonist syndicated by the NYTimes worldwide

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Fed Releases Rare "Snapshot" on Economy

Tom Gregory, 11.12.2009

Actor, radio personality, and Tony nominated producer

In a rare glimpse behind the closed-doors of The Federal Reserve, Chairman Ben Bernanke released a snapshot of the economy they have been looking at for months.

Banks and Vaccines

Christopher Brauchli, 11.12.2009

Columnist and lawyer

Banks are receiving the H1N1 vaccine because of their employees' importance to the financial well being of the country.

Investors: Beware the Quackery of Economic Goats, Whitewashers and Charlatans

Ann Pettifor, 11.13.2009

New Economist, Author, Debtonation - The Coming First World Debt Crisis

Today -- as global trade lies dead, as unemployment rises, as wages and incomes plummet, as US consumption and investment falls -- share prices zoom upwards and commodity prices rock.

Robert Rubin: The Man at the Nexus of Big Business and Big Government

Charles Gasparino, 11.11.2009

Author, The Sellout

There are plenty of media types who blame last year's implosion and the bailout on greedy bankers, but that's only part of the story. Wall Street needed a co-conspirator; namely, the government.

Of Billionaires, Bailouts and Bonuses

Les Leopold, 11.11.2009

Author of "The Looting of America"

Let's weigh the pros and cons of the record bonuses going to Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan Chase and Morgan Stanley (and many others) during the worst economic crash since 1929.

The Lloyd's Prayer

Tom Gregory, 11.12.2009

Actor, radio personality, and Tony nominated producer

Our Chairman, Who Art At Goldman, Blankfein Be Thy Name.

The Proselytizers: Wall Street Executives and Televangelists

Judith Ellis, 11.11.2009

Entrepreneur

Goldman Sachs executives are sounding more and more like televangelists who say things like "We are doing the work of the ministry" and "Give and it shall be given unto you."

Vatican Confirms: Goldman "Doing God's Work"

Tom Gregory, 11.10.2009

Actor, radio personality, and Tony nominated producer

L'Osservatore Romano is reporting that Goldman Sachs is indeed Doing God's work, and His Former Holiness Joseph Ratzinger has confirmed the unsolicited hostile takeover.

Goldman's Profits Come from Our Pockets: Why We Need a Tobin Tax

Ellen Brown, 11.09.2009

Author, "Web of Debt"

While Wall Street's welfare queens have been busy collecting generous government handouts, the 50 states have been left to fend for themselves.

Goldman Sachs Not Doing "God's Work," Says Satan

Andy Borowitz, 11.09.2009

BorowitzReport.com

While Satan said he was "delighted" by the bonuses being paid out to Wall Street executives this year, he was clearly miffed that his role in the financial firms' successes had been largely ignored.

Goldman Sachs Doing "God's Work"?

Charles Gasparino, 11.09.2009

Author, The Sellout

The only thing worse than Goldman Sachs amassing billions in bonus money for its executives, based on various government subsidies and bailout measures, is listening to it try to explain it all away.

Goldman Sachs: Man Bites Dog, Americans Bleed

Tom Gregory, 11.08.2009

Actor, radio personality, and Tony nominated producer

Goldman executives had argued that the deal would provide much-needed capital to Fannie Mae, which it could use to finance additional low-income housing.

Celebration, Cancer, God

Stephen Gyllenhaal, 11.10.2009

Stirring the pot...

Calling Goldman Sachs a murderous, blood sucking cancerous leech etc, isn't perfect either, but it's going to have to do.

To Create Jobs on Main Street, We Need to Kill Jobs on Wall Street

Les Leopold, 11.07.2009

Author of "The Looting of America"

The Billionaire Bailout Society is not a shared society. We're not in it together. What's good for Wall Street is not good for the rest of us...they even get their swine flu shots before we do.

My Conversation with Goldman

Rep. Jan Schakowsky, 11.06.2009

This week I had an opportunity most Americans would relish, just as I did. I was able to unload on two top executives of Goldman Sachs who descended from on high to my office to 'educate' me on bonuses.

A Systemic Risk Regulator and a Compensation Tsar? Larry Summers and Ben Bernanke Must Be Kidding

David Paul, 11.03.2009

President of the Fiscal Strategies Group

With the announcement of record Wall Street bonus pools and rising credit card fees, it is time to sit back and see where we go from here.

Oil's Massive Price Distortion Militates the Reconvening of the 1970s Federal Oil Price Task Force

Raymond J. Learsy, 11.08.2009

Scholar and author, "Over a Barrel: Breaking Oil’s Grip on Our Future"

It is long past time that our government take seriously and study intensely how oil prices are determined in a world of OPEC, speculation, timid oversight and failing transparency.

Fraud at Goldman Sachs?

Mike Lux, 11.02.2009

Author, The Progressive Revolution: How the Best in America Came to Be

This story is not just a story about simple greed or securities fraud, it's a story about a company that has gotten so big and powerful that it can manipulate markets at will.