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Last Night, I Dreamed That I Was Goldman Sachs' Social Media Manager...

April Rudin | Posted 05.14.2012

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One of the stories pinging around on the Internet a couple of weeks ago was Goldman Sachs' plan to hire a social media community manager. While most c...

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Bankers Win Court Battle To Get $64 Million In Crisis-Era Bonuses

The Huffington Post | Alexander Eichler | Posted 05.09.2012

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It seems like a law of the universe: Water flows downhill, and bankers eventually get their bonuses. A group of 104 London investment bankers won a...

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Conflicts: No Ambiguity

Peter J. Solomon | Posted 04.02.2012

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In The Partnership: The Making of Goldman Sachs, Lloyd Blankfein defines Goldman Sachs' view of conflicts, but his concept of the relationship between an advisor and its clients is alien to the tenets of trust and fiduciary obligations.

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Interview With a Philosopher: A Conversation With Keith Wyma and Tobin Senefeld on Goldman Sachs

Tom Morris | Posted 05.21.2012

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If Aristotle ran Goldman Sachs, what sort of press do you think the company would be getting these days? How would employees, past and present, describe their culture?

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Goldman Scandal

Jeff Danziger | Posted 05.15.2012

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Goldman Sachs Employees On Bonus Day: 'It's A Bloodbath'

The Huffington Post | Bonnie Kavoussi | Posted 01.20.2012

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Reports are creeping out that yesterday's bonus day wasn't all fun and games at America's most iconic investment bank. Goldman's profits fell in 2...

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Pay For Goldman Sachs Employees Has Little To Do With Performance

The Huffington Post | Alexander Eichler | Posted 01.23.2012

Goldman Sachs isn't likely to garner much public favor when it announces its earnings this week, as forecasts predict that the bank will boost the sha...

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Goldman Gives Blankfein a $5.4 Million Cash Bonus

AP | Posted 06.02.2011

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NEW YORK — Lloyd Blankfein, the CEO of Goldman Sachs Group Inc., saw his 2010 compensation rise to $14.1 million from just over $1 million in 20...

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Balancing the Budget, Looking for Simple Answers

Howard Steven Friedman | Posted 05.25.2011

To cut costs you need to trim the big ticket items. Unfortunately, serious discussions about the budget and dramatic actions aren't going to raise re-election coffers or make politicians popular.

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Regulators May Force Wall Street To Defer Half Of Executives' Bonuses, Wall Street Journal Reports

Reuters | Ben Klayman and Will Dunham | Posted 05.25.2011

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(Reuters) - U.S. regulators will propose that major financial firms defer at least half of bonuses paid to top executives for at least three years...

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Charlie, What's It Like Inside the Club?

Howard Steven Friedman | Posted 05.25.2011

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The world is full of clubs. Two countries have about 95% of the estimated nuclear weapons in the small club of nuclear countries. The world's four wealthiest countries have about half the global economy.

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Goldman Sachs Grilled By Lawmakers Over Wall Street Practices

HuffingtonPost.com | Bill Lucey | Posted 05.25.2011

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Sen. Carl Levin, chairman of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee came out swinging on Tuesday, tearing into Goldman Sachs executives about whether their...

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Coloradans Challenging Wall Street on Main Street This Week

T.A. Taylor-Hunt | Posted 05.25.2011

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The sidewalk outside the Wells Fargo Bank office at 17th & Broadway in Denver will host two Main Street actions in support of strong financial reform legislation in the U.S. Senate.

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Will Goldman Sachs's CEO Appear On Oprah? It's Been Discussed

Posted 05.25.2011

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Instead of another politically-charged appearance before Congress, some at Goldman Sachs are suggesting that CEO Lloyd Blankfein make a visit to Oprah...

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Shadow Elite: Goldman Sachs - Fraud Is Not the Scandal

Linda Keenan | Posted 05.25.2011

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Americans justifiably furious with Wall Street conduct, and the havoc it's caused, might be comforted by news that regulators are taking Goldman Sachs to court, alleging fraud. They shouldn't be.

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Is Being Anti-Goldman Sachs Being Anti-American?

Don McNay | Posted 05.25.2011

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The real scandal of the entire bailout mess was how money was funneled through AIG to pay "counterparties" like Goldman Sachs 100 cents on the dollar.

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Jon Stewart Takes On Goldman Sachs Fraud Case (VIDEO)

Posted 05.25.2011

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After some obligatory jabs at Jim Cramer last night, Jon Stewart took some time to break down the recent Goldman Sachs fraud case, in which in which t...

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Goldman Sachs Bonuses: Bank Paying Staff Over $5 Billion For Just Three Months Work

AP | GREGORY KATZ and GEIR MOULSON | Posted 05.25.2011

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LONDON — Goldman Sachs is facing a potential backlash in Europe over the fraud case brought against it in the United States, with Britain's Prim...

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Goldman Sachs: Too Big For Jail?

Don McNay | Posted 05.25.2011

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Just because the SEC filed a lawsuit, it doesn't mean they will win. Goldman Sachs could easily prevail. Before we start breaking out the champagne, let's look at what is actually going on.

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Goldman Sachs and the Luxury of No Risk

Ronald Ricker | Posted 05.25.2011

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For Goldman Sachs crime does in fact pay - and very well. Today, Goldman Sachs was charged with defrauding investors -- $1 billion worth of fraud discovered so far.

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The Fallacy of the Talented Tenth

John Feffer | Posted 05.25.2011

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When will we wean ourselves of the delusion that a talented tenth - be they entrepreneurs or technocrats or pundits - will deliver us from poverty and the other ills of the world?

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Goldman Sachs Perks: Children Of Execs Get Big Paychecks, According To Filing

nytimes.com | Michaele Leder | Posted 05.25.2011

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Under the section titled "Certain Relationships and Other Transactions," [Goldman Sachs's] filing notes that "a child" of Mr. Blankfein -- the filing ...

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The Banks' Bonus Culture: "Have You Left No Sense of decency?"

Iris Erlingsdottir | Posted 05.25.2011

Now that the banks have been stabilized (to some degree) as a result of massive public intervention, the very individuals who have nearly destroyed the country are ready to dance again.

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Goldman Sachs -- It's About Bonuses

David Dixon | Posted 05.25.2011

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As a professional who spent nearly a decade in the fixed income division at Goldman Sachs in both New York and London, it pains me to watch the firm get dragged through the mud.

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The Uncosted Rewards of Bankers' Bonuses

Reggie Middleton | Posted 05.25.2011

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Main Street is absolutely flabbergasted that bankers do not understand the core issues of this bonus question. Allow me to clearly outline the problem and propose a solution.

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