Goldman Sachs

The Black-Scholes Atomic Debt Bomb & 7 Predictions

Max Keiser | Posted 07.22.2008 | Business

Read More: Option Volatility Formula, Federal Reserve Bank, JP Morgan, Goldman Sachs, Deflation, Inflation, Black-Scholes, Business News
Max Keiser

By not deflating the supply of fiat, debt-based exchange units for so many years, the over supply of them, each a claim on America's future, has grown by quantum levels of risk.

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Scamming, Death-Faking Hedge Funder Sam Israel's Latest Victim: Goldman Sachs

ClusterStock | Corey Lorinsky | Posted 07.18.2008 | Business

Read More: Goldman Sachs, Faked Suicide, Sam Israel Faked Death, Bayou Group, Sam Israel, Bayou Hedge Fund, Samuel Israel III, Sam Israel Victims, Business News

Sam Israel's $250 million fraud and fake suicide are still leaving casualties. Now his defrauded Bayou Hedge Fund investors are trying to recoup some ...

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Hedge Funds Poach Talent From Weakened Investment Banks Like Bear Stearns

DealBook | Posted 07.08.2008 | Business

Read More: Investment Banks, Merrill Lynch, JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, GLG Partners, Economy, CQS, Bear Stearns, Bear Stearns Collapse, Citadel, Tudor Investment, Business News

Hedge funds are on a hiring binge, taking advantage of cutbacks at investment banks. Star traders, senior executives and whole teams have been recruit...

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Crying Fire! Did CNBC Kill Bear Stearns?

Yvette Kantrow | Posted 07.07.2008 | Media

Read More: Goldman Sachs, Bear Stearns, Erin Burnett, Alan Schwartz, Bryan Burrough, Vanity Fair, CNBC TV, Media News
Yvette Kantrow

Bryan Burrough in the August Vanity Fair develops his case against CNBC Inc., taking the network to task for failing to separate rumors about Bear's liquidity from fact.

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Obama's Money, Take Two

Bob Ostertag | Posted 07.01.2008 | Politics

Read More: Goldman Sachs, 2008 Election, Halliburton, Barack Obama, Campaign Finance, Politics News
Bob Ostertag

I desperately want Obama to win, and I hope Wall Street gives him $10 million more. Having Goldman Sachs run the government would be a huge step up from having Halliburton run it.

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Goldman Cuts Corners By Depriving Junior Execs Of Flying Business Class

New York Post | Mark DeCambre with Zachery Kouwe | Posted 06.18.2008 | Business

Read More: Lloyd Blankfein, Goldman Sachs Perks, Goldman Sachs, Goldman Sachs Junior Executives, Goldman Sachs Cut Corners, Riches to Rags, Housing Crisis, Subprime Mortage Crisis, Goldman Sachs Bonuses, Business News

Goldman Sachs has been best of breed among its mortgage-mangled brethren, but even it is starting to feel the pinch of a slackening deal flow, which h...

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Goldman Sachs Boasts High Earnings

Wall Street Journal | Posted 06.17.2008 | Business

Read More: Sub-Prime, Earnings Report, Goldman Sachs, Reported Earnings, Hedge Funds, Economy, Banking Crisis, Bear Stearns, Stock Market, Wall Street, Investment Banking, Mortgage Crisis, Business News

When Bear Stearns was dying (and even just before) many wondered what would happen to its successful prime brokerage business, which is engaged in the...

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After Rough Year, Nearly Half Of Wall St. Bank Profits Are Gone

The New York Times | LOUISE STORY | Posted 06.16.2008 | Business

Read More: Cirtigroup, Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch, JPMorgan Chase, Morgan Stanley, Wall Street Profits, Wall Street, Bank of America Profits, Major Banks, Lehman Brothers, Mortgage Crisis, Wall Street Mortage Crisis, Citigroup Profits, Wall Street Earnings, Lehman Shares, Business News

Only a year ago, Wall Street reveled in an era of superlatives: record deals, record profit, record pay. But a mere 12 months later, nearly half of th...

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Green Banking, Good Banking

John Tepper Marlin | Posted 06.04.2008 | Green

Read More: Carter Glass, Gramm, Carbon Bank, Cdo, Vanguard, Clean Energy, Hsbc, Deutsche Bank, Barclays, Jack Brennan, Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch, Energy Efficiency Index, Morgan Stanley, Lehman, Phil Gramm, ABN Amro, Bear Stearns, Glass-Steagall, Brennan, Ceres, Green News
John Tepper Marlin

If Ceres Climate Change ratings had been used as a proxy for long-term thinking, they would have been helpful. They would, in the context of the illiquidity of the credit markets, have been a good predictor of the Bankers Panic of 2008.

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Goldman's Lloyd Blankfein: A $74 Million Bargain?

Forbes | Posted 05.01.2008 | Business

Read More: Lloyd Blankfein, Goldman Sachs, CEO Compensation, Business News

At $74 million a year, Goldman Sachs Chief Executive Lloyd Blankfein may be a Wall Street bargain. The 53-year-old Blankfein caught a lot of flak whe...

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The Upside Down Banker: Banks Like Goldman Sachs in the US Are Listening to Muhammad Yunus

Vivian Norris de Montaigu | Posted 04.19.2008 | Business

Read More: Sub-Prime, Yunus, Poverty, Investment Banks, Economy, Katrina, Women Entrepreneurs, Grameen America, Entrepreneurs, Bangladesh, 0, Emerging Markets, Village Banks, Credit Agricole, Double Digit Returns, Goldman Sachs, Credit, 000 Women, Us, Arms, Business News
Vivian Norris de Montaigu

Banks in France, especially ones which began as "village banks" like Muhammed Yunus' own Grameen, have mutualist roots to begin with and are deeply linked to their communities well-being.

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Goldman Employees Denied Free Water, Soda

New York Post | ZACHERY KOUWE | Posted 04.03.2008 | Business

Read More: Investment Banks, Free Soda, Goldman Sachs, Wall Street, Bottled Water, Business News

Things must be really tough when Wall Street's most profitable investment bank starts cutting perks. Thirsty traders at Goldman Sachs now have to spr...

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How Goldman Sachs Secretly Destroyed Bear Stearns

Henry Blodget | Posted 04.02.2008 | Business

Read More: Goldman Sachs, Bear Stearns Alan Schwartz, Bear Stearns Collapse, Bear Stearns, Goldman Sachs Bear Stearns, Bear Stearns Buyout, Business News
Henry Blodget

Once again, Goldman seems to have outsmarted the rest of Wall Street, spotting a problem before everyone else did.

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Goldman Sachs: Wall St. May Face $460B In Losses

Bloomberg | Zhao Yidi | Posted 03.25.2008 | Business

Read More: Goldman Sachs, Bear Stearns Collapse, US Economy, Market Collapse, Wall Street, Business News

Wall Street banks, brokerages and hedge funds may report $460 billion in credit losses from the collapse of the subprime mortgage market, or almost fo...

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S&P Cuts Goldman, Lehman Outlooks

AP | Posted 03.21.2008 | Business

Read More: Goldman Sachs, Goldman, S&P, Lehman, Lehman Bros, Standard & Poor, Business News

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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Visa's $17.9 Billion IPO Breaks Records

Reuters | Posted 03.18.2008 | Business

Read More: Goldman Sachs, Sec, Visa, Visa IPO, Jpmorgan, Visa Largest IPO, Largest Ever IPO, Business News

Visa Inc, the world's largest credit card network, on Tuesday raised $17.9 billion in an initial public offering, the largest-ever U.S. IPO. San Fran...

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Profits At Goldman, Lehman Slashed In Half

MarketWatch | Greg Morcroft | Posted 03.18.2008 | Business

Read More: Credit Crisis, Goldman Sachs, Wall Street, Investment Banks, Trading Revenue, Global Financial Markets, Credit Crunch, Lehman Bros, Investment Banking, First Quarter Profits, Business News

Wall Street titans Lehman Bros. and Goldman Sachs, at the center of a credit storm swirling through the global financial markets, both said Tuesday th...

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Goldman Leads with "10,000 Women" Initiative

Deborah Siegel and Jacki Zehner | Posted 03.07.2008 | Business

Read More: Working Women, Lloyd Blankfein, Ten Thousand Women, Goldman Sachs, Housing Market, Gdp, 000 Women, 10, Women and Work, Business News
Deborah Siegel and Jacki Zehner

Goldman Sach's vision to empower women entrepreneurs with a business education is an important component in support of long-term economic growth.

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Wall Street Gears For New Pain

Wall Street Journal | LINGLING WEI, RANDALL SMITH | Posted 03.03.2008 | Business

Read More: Citigroup, U.S. Economy, Banks, Subprime Loans, Real Estate, Credit Crunch, Subprime Shakedown, Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch, J.P. Morgan Chase, Morgan Stanley, Lehman Brothers, Bear Stearsn, Subprime Loan Crisis, J.P. Morgan, Commercial Real Estate, Business News

After suffering a beating from their exposure to home loans, banks and securities firms are about to take their lumps from office towers, hotels and o...

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Goldman CEO Challenged On-Air By Lou Dobbs

Huffington Post | Posted 02.28.2008 | Business

Read More: Lloyd Blankfein, U.S. Economy, Goldman Sachs, Wall Street, Lou Dobbs, Recession, Homeowners, Economy.com, Underwater Homeowners, Business News

On Tuesday, Lou Dobbs challenged Lloyd Blankfein, the CEO of Goldman Sachs, to a fight while on the air. After discussing a new Economy.com report tha...

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Is Hillary Good For Business?

BusinessWeek | Moira Herbst | Posted 02.28.2008 | Business

Read More: Quadrangle Group, Goldman Sachs, Hillary Clinton Big Business, Morgan Stanley, Wall Street, Steve Rattner, Hillary Clinton Business Ties, Hillary Clinton, Health Insurance, John Mack, Tax Cuts, Big Oil, Business News

In the final Democratic debate of the primaries on Feb. 26, Senator Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.) trumpeted the populist theme of her campaign: "The wealth...

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M&A Bankers On Yahoo-Microsoft: Done Deal

Silicon Alley Insider | Henry Blodget | Posted 02.21.2008 | Business

Read More: Steve Ballmer, Goldman Sachs, Microsoft Yahoo Deal, Yahoo, Microsoft, Morgan Stanley, M&a Moguls, Jerry Yang, Business News

We canvassed a couple of Wall Street M&A moguls last night for their thoughts on how the Microsoft-Yahoo (MSFT/YHOO) deal would play out. Their though...

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Wall Street Banks Brace For More Multibillion-Dollar Losses

New York Times | Jenny Anderson | Posted 02.19.2008 | Business

Read More: Goldman Sachs, U.S. Economy, Credit Crisis, High-Risk Loans, Corporate Buyouts, Wall Street, Auction-Rate Securities, Subprime Mortgage Crisis, American Economy, Wall Street Banks, Commercial Real Estate, Subprime Mortgages, Slowing Economy, Ubs, Credit Markets, Business News

Wall Street banks are bracing for another wave of multibillion-dollar losses as the crisis that began with subprime mortgages spreads through the cred...

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Will You Cash Out Before The Market Crashes?

Motley Fool | Tim Hanson | Posted 02.15.2008 | Business

Read More: Merrill Lynch, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Financial Firms, Stock Market, Market Crash, Recession Fears, Recession, S&P 500, Wachovia, Business News

Six -- count 'em, six -- major financial firms now declare that the United States is in recession. That list includes heavyweights such as Goldman S...

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Goldman CFO: Fear Is Ruling The Markets

Bloomberg Via NYP | Posted 02.08.2008 | Business

Read More: Credit Crunch, David Viniar, Goldman Sachs, Credit Markets, Recession Fears, Recession, Business News

US credit markets are trading as if the economy is in a recession because investors' "fear has overwhelmed greed," Goldman Sachs Group Inc. Chief Fina...

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