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Peter J. Solomon is Founder and Chairman of Peter J. Solomon Company, L.P., an investment banking firm. He was Counselor to the Secretary of the Treasury under President Jimmy Carter, Deputy Mayor for Economic Policy and Development under Mayor Edward I. Koch and Vice Chairman of Lehman Brothers in the 1980s. In January 2010, he testified in Washington before the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission.

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Conflicts: No Ambiguity

28 Comments | Posted April 2, 2012 | 11:40 AM

The most surprising facts about Greg Smith's denunciation of Goldman Sachs' ethos and its disdain of its clients is that he had the audacity to write what is common knowledge, and the New York Times printed it. Media, academic and elected officials have jumped on the article to...

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Embracing Conflicts -- A Bad Business Strategy

0 Comments | Posted May 5, 2010 | 11:09 AM

Goldman Sachs may or may not be guilty of fraud as alleged by the Securities and Exchange Commission. The legal issue centers on whether Goldman had to disclose that a prominent institutional investor had selected mortgages to be sold to other institutional investors. "Disclosure" is the central issue in this...

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