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Revisiting The Fed's Bailout Of AIG And The Benefits For Goldman Sachs

New York Times | GRETCHEN MORGENSON | Posted 11.22.2009 | Business

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A RAY of sunlight broke through the Washington fog last week when Neil M. Barofsky, special inspector general for the Troubled Asset Relief Program, p...

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CFTC Gets Derivatives Advice From Industry Insiders

HuffPost Investigative Fund | Keith Epstein And Ben Protess | Posted 11.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Cantwell, Goldman Sachs, Lobbyists, Cftc, Commodities Futures Trading Commission, JP Morgan, Obama, Citigroup Global Markets, Federal Advisory Committee Act, White House, Euronext Liffe, Maria Cantwell, Financial Crisis, Government Accountability Office, Jill Sommers, Cme, Lobbying, Derivatives, Richard Berliand, Financial Reform, Joanne Medero, Arthur Hahn, Goldman, Barclays, Jill E. Sommers, Barack Obama, Gao, Derivatives Trading, Robert Klein, Bonnie Litt, Citigroup, Politics News

Like many federal agencies contemplating reform these days, the Commodities Futures Trading Commission is hearing a lot from the industry it regulates...

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Vatican Confirms: Goldman "Doing God's Work"

Tom Gregory | Posted 11.10.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Lloyd Blankfein, Goldman Sachs, Stock Market, Doing God's Work, The Vatican, Subprime Mortgage Crisis, Goldman, Joseph Ratzinger, Pope Benedict XVI, James Bond, Comedy News
Tom Gregory

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.

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Goldman Sachs Doing "God's Work"?

Charles Gasparino | Posted 11.09.2009 | Business

Read More: Tarp, Lloyd Blankfein, Goldman Sachs, Wall Street Bailout, Bailout, Goldman Sachs Bonuses, Goldman Sachs Bailout, Blankfein, Banks, Bear Stearns, Goldman Sachs TARP, Goldman Sachs Profits, Goldman, Business News
Charles Gasparino

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.

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Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein: "I'm Doing God's Work."

Times Online | John Arlidge | Posted 11.07.2009 | Business

Read More: Timothy Geithner, Goldman Sachs, Economy, Derivatives, Bailouts, Black Pools, Regulation, Credit Default Swaps, George Bush, Lloyd Blankfein, Policy, Goldman, London, Tim Geithner, Recession, Mortgage Crisis, Ben Bernanke, Henry Paulson, The City, Bailout, Barack Obama, Predatory Lending, Blankfein, Banks, Hank Paulson, Bonuses, Wall Street, Executive Pay, Business News

Goldman's reputation is suddenly as toxic as the credit default swaps and other inexplicably exotic financial instruments it used to buy with glee. Th...

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Goldman Sachs Defends Trading Practices: Dark Pools, Flash Trading, Short Selling

Telegraph | James Quinn, US Business Editor | Posted 10.28.2009 | Business

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In a document handed to the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the investment bank asserts that such practices, some of which the SEC is loo...

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Frank Rich: Goldman Can Spare You A Dime

New York Times | FRANK RICH | Posted 10.17.2009 | Business

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As leader of the Wall Street pack, Goldman declared surging profits, keeping it on track to dispense a record $23 billion in bonuses for 2009. But mos...

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Ethics Questions Linger Over Paulson's Calls To Goldman During Financial Crisis

New York Times | GRETCHEN MORGENSON and DON VAN NATTA Jr. | Posted 09.08.2009 | Business

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Before he became President George W. Bush's Treasury secretary in 2006, Henry M. Paulson Jr. agreed to hold himself to a higher ethical standard than ...

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The Sound of Silence

Yvette Kantrow | Posted 09.06.2009 | Business

Read More: Rolling Stone, Matt Taibbi, The Audit, Goldman, Sachs & Co., New York Times, Cjr, Columbia Journalism Review, Business News
Yvette Kantrow

For a site that has repeatedly railed about the business press' failure to take on big financial institutions, CJR's lack of comment on a major piece that did just that was puzzling.

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Goldman Sachs' Reputation Tarnished, Survey Finds

Financial Times | Greg Farrell | Posted 09.02.2009 | Business

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Goldman Sachs' reputation among both the general public and financially sophisticated Americans has been damaged by the events of the past year, accor...

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Obama's Economy

Michael Likosky | Posted 08.20.2009 | Business

Read More: Citi, Energy, American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, p3s, Public-Private Partnerships, Bailouts, George W. Bush, President Obama, Shock and Awe, Public Works, Infrastructure, Morgan Stanley, Tax Incentives, General Motors, Janesville-Wisconsin, Rustbelt, Michigan, Iraq War, Privatization, Goldman, Economic Stimulus, Tarp, Tax Havens, Business News
Michael Likosky

If the TARP banks are to be a main investment vehicle for the next stage of recovery -- as they should be, it is after all our money not theirs -- it is heartening to have Obama at the helm.

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Goldman Sachs Likely To Post Huge Profits, Analysts Say

New York Times | GRAHAM BOWLEY and JENNY ANDERSON | Posted 08.12.2009 | Business

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Most of Wall Street, and America, is still waiting for an economic recovery. Then there is Goldman Sachs. Up and down Wall Street, analysts and trade...

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JPMorgan Chase Gaining On Goldman

Reuters | Posted 07.27.2009 | Business

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NEW YORK (Reuters) - JPMorgan Chase & Co (JPM.N) has snapped up market share for its investment banking unit and, amid the financial crisis, its large...

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Goldman Sachs Spent Millions Of Dollars To Bail Out 2 Senior Execs

New York Times | Louise Story | Posted 04.27.2009 | Business

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The financial giant Goldman Sachs spent tens of millions of dollars to bail out two senior executives last fall who were short on cash, according to t...

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S&P Cuts Goldman, Lehman Outlooks

AP | Posted 03.29.2008 | Business

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Standard & Poor's Ratings Services said Friday it cut its outlook on Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc., saying volatile marke...

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How Goldman Won Big On Mortgage Meltdown

Wall Street Journal | Kate Kelly | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business

Read More: Goldman, Goldman Sachs, Subprime Loan Crisis, Subprime Mortgages, Subprime Loans, Subprime Mortgage Crisis, Business News

The subprime-mortgage crisis has been a financial catastrophe for much of Wall Street. At Goldman Sachs Group Inc., thanks to a tiny group of traders,...

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