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	<title><![CDATA[Goldman Announces Record Profit and Bonuses. So Much for Financial Reform and an End to Greed on Wall Street]]></title>
	<url>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/andy-ostroy/goldman-announces-record_b_233082.html</url>
	<abstract><![CDATA[<p><img alt="2009-07-15-GordonGecko740537.jpg" src="http://images.huffingtonpost.com/2009-07-15-GordonGecko740537.jpg" width="400" height="250" /><br />
<em>"Greed is Good," </em>Gordon Gekko, <em>Wall Street</em> (1987) </p>

<p>Well, greed is not only <em>good</em>, apparently, it's <em>back</em>, and more ravenous than ever. On Tuesday the venerable Wall Street investment bank Goldman Sachs announced an astonishing $3.4-billion quarterly profit, it's best ever in its 140-year history. It also announced that it's allocated a whopping $11.4 billion towards employee compensation this year. So, just a few months after being bailed out by the U.S. Government and...</p>]]></abstract>
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	<date_published>2009-07-15T15:55:00-04:00</date_published>
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