Lloyd Blankfein

Goldman Director Starts Insider Trading Trial Today

AP | TOM HAYS | Posted 05.21.2012

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NEW YORK (AP) — The July 29, 2008, phone call between two titans of Wall Street began with the old friends exchanging mild pleasantries, but then qu...

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Have They Learned Anything?

HuffingtonPost.com | D.M. Levine | Posted 05.03.2012

Read More: Goldman-Sachs, Lloyd Blankfein, Vampire Squid, Wall Street, Finance, Wells Fargo, Occupy Wall Street, Public Relations, Bankers, Business News

NEW YORK -- As May Day protests hit major cities across the United States this week, breathing new life into an Occupy Wall Street movement still in i...

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Goldman CEO: We Lost A Client Over Our Pro-Gay Marriage Stance

The Huffington Post | Alexander Eichler | Posted 05.02.2012

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The Vampire Squid's heart seems to have cost it some business. Lloyd Blankfein, CEO of Goldman Sachs, this February endorsed same-sex marriage in ...

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Bank CEOs Air Grievances With Dodd-Frank

Reuters | Posted 05.03.2012

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* Bank CEOs express concerns about Dodd-Frank rules * Fed's Tarullo listens but does not respond at meeting * Stress tes...

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An October Surprise on Wall Street

Charles Gasparino | Posted 05.01.2012

Read More: Lloyd Blankfein, Goldman Sachs, Jon Corzine, Lehman Brothers, MF Global, Financial Crisis, Securities and Exchange Commission, Wall Street, Dick Fuld, Business News

Coming this fall, as President Obama makes his final push for a second term, his Justice Department will finally give the public what it wants in the form of an arrest of a major Wall Street figure for his role in the financial crisis.

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'We Haven't Gotten Everything Right'

The Huffington Post | Mark Gongloff | Posted 04.26.2012

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Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein admitted on Wednesday that his bank has a public relations problem, but insisted it does not have a problem with how...

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Howard Stern Wanted How Much In Stock Awards?

The Huffington Post | Harry Bradford | Posted 04.18.2012

Read More: Lloyd Blankfein, Overtime Pay, Joel Hyatt, The Smoking Gun, Video, Siriusxm, Novartis, Howie Mandel, Howard Stern, Jamie Dimon, Compensation, Al Gore, Keith Olbermann, Stock Awards, U.S. Department of Labor, Business News

In the words of his America’s Got Talent co-judge Howie Mandel, radio personality Howard Stern’s lawsuit against SiriusXM is a decisive “no deal...

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One CEO's Lonely Quest To Restore Wall Street's Honor

Bloomberg | William D. Cohan | Posted 04.17.2012

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Bloomberg View: There has been a noticeable dearth of leadership on Wall Street after the financial crisis. Where are the senior executives will...

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Why It's Good To Be Vampire Squid

AP | Associated Press | Posted 04.13.2012

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NEW YORK — Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein received total compensation of $16.1 million in 2011, a 14 percent increase from the year before. ...

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What if Goldman Sachs Was Run by 'Fiona' Blankfein?

Amy Siskind | Posted 04.03.2012

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The problem of gender imbalance is endemic and our leadership is failing us. Desperately failing us. And here's the startling fact behind the numbers: unless we take action, gender imbalance will only get worse!

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The CEOs That Employees Love Most

The Huffington Post | Harry Bradford | Posted 03.31.2012

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Corporate chiefs are often the targets of both public bashing and adoration, but perhaps what counts most is how they're perceived by their own employ...

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Financial Statesmanship for a New Economy

John Fullerton | Posted 05.21.2012

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I wonder what happened to the belief that banking is a profession, as J.P. Morgan believed, rather than "just a business" as it is today.

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Greg Smith's Warholian Week

Robert Teitelman | Posted 05.20.2012

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Many of the skeptics took the opportunity to speculate freely about this unassuming Greg Smith figure -- even the name has a kind of Goldmanite uniformity -- and his motivations, often to his detriment. Why did he do it?

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Breaking the Code of Omertà at Goldman Sachs

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 05.19.2012

Greg Smith violated the ancient code of all mafia organizations: he spilled the game to the public. His former colleagues at Goldman Sachs no doubt now see him as a "rat."

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What Do Customers Really Think About Goldman Sachs?

Janet Tavakoli | Posted 05.19.2012

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Goldman Sachs writes the "vast majority of people at Goldman" -- people paid by them -- have a different view than Greg Smith. To 'support" an argument with this type of biased data is the statistical equivalent of cheating at cards.

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Culture of Predation: That Goldman Sachs Exposé Barely Scratches the Surface

Richard (RJ) Eskow | Posted 05.15.2012

Read More: Lloyd Blankfein, Goldman Sachs, Hewlett Packard, Greg Smith, Gillette, Corporate Culture, Corporate America, Wall Street, Business News

This week people have been buzzing about Goldman Sachs executive Greg Smith's high-profile resignation from Goldman and his description of the way tha...

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What Wall Street Muppets are Saying

Sunil Adam | Posted 05.15.2012

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WATCH: Colbert Defends Goldman Sachs From Quitter

Posted 03.15.2012

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Stephen Colbert couldn't believe his eyes when he read the now-infamous New York Times op-ed "Why I Am Leaving Goldman Sachs," in which ex-employee Gr...

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At Last, Some Decency on Wall Street

Robert Scheer | Posted 05.14.2012

Clearly people comfortable in the Washington-Wall Street axis have no sense of shame. They know all too well what Goldman and the other financial swindlers have been up to, causing so much misery for tens of millions throughout the world.

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Goldman Sachs? Just Fine, Thank You

HuffingtonPost.com | D.M. Levine | Posted 03.15.2012

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For those wondering whether the bad press that has plagued Goldman Sachs in recent weeks is likely to affect the firm's bottom-line, industry insiders...

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Why Goldman's Quitting Exec May Have A Point

ProPublica | Cora Currier | Posted 03.15.2012

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An executive at Goldman Sachs left the firm today with a bang, penning a New York Times op-ed accusing the company of increasingly putting profits ahe...

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Why NY Times Ran Goldman Sachs Exec's Resignation Letter

HuffingtonPost.com | Michael Calderone | Posted 03.16.2012

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NEW YORK -- Goldman Sachs executive director Greg Smith quit his job Wednesday in the most public way possible -- on the op-ed page of The New York Ti...

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Goldman Employee Blasts Firm On Way Out

New York Times | Posted 05.14.2012

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TODAY is my last day at Goldman Sachs. After almost 12 years at the firm -- first as a summer intern while at Stanford, then in New York for 10 years,...

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How Does the 1% Exploit America? Find Out in 1 Minute (VIDEO)

Robert Greenwald | Posted 04.17.2012

Even in an Occupy world, most Americans don't know exactly how the 1% does what it does. The mainstream media hasn't explained it, and the 1% likes things that way.

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Fed's Secret Sale Of AIG Assets To Goldman Criticized As 'Un-American'

The Huffington Post | Bonnie Kavoussi | Posted 02.10.2012

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The Federal Reserve gave just five banks the chance to bid on $6.2 billion in taxpayer-owned AIG assets before selling them to Goldman Sachs on Wednes...

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