Goldman Sachs bankers are generally smooth, urbane, and on-message. But these days they're clearly flustered. Why else would Goldman president Gary Co...
Rob Shapiro | Posted 09.06.2009 | Business
Ironically, the bailouts that saved us from a second Great Depression may also bolster some of the distortions that threaten to produce it. Old practices that got us into this mess still go on.
AP | STEPHEN BERNARD | Posted 09.05.2009 | Business
NEW YORK — Goldman Sachs Group Inc., one of the banking industry's top performers, said Wednesday that government agencies have asked about its ...
bloomberg.com | Posted 09.05.2009 | Business
Aug. 5 (Bloomberg) -- Goldman Sachs Group Inc. made more than $100 million in trading revenue on a record 46 separate days during the second quarter, ...
Georges Ugeux | Posted 08.28.2009 | Business
Why should the world pay to maintain a compensation system that is perceived to be outrageous and dangerous for the systemic stability of capital markets?
Don McNay | Posted 08.22.2009 | Living
I've dealt with hundreds of parents of special needs children. They take the hand that is dealt to them. And usually turn that hand into aces.
Sheldon Filger | Posted 08.16.2009 | Business
Paulson's posture has been consistently maintained by the "masters of the universe" since the onset of the economic crisis: privatize the profits (especially after radical deregulation) but socialize all losses.
Peter Daou | Posted 08.15.2009 | Politics
Goldman's greed is being rewarded at our expense while the media, punditocracy, and online commentariat rail against a soon to be ex-Governor of Alaska.
Jill Schlesinger | Posted 08.15.2009 | Business
Humility won't eradicate years of arrogance, but along with some much needed regulatory reform, it would go a long way to help all of us move beyond this painful period.
The Big Picture | Posted 08.14.2009 | Business
Now that Goldman Sachs is a commercial bank comes a new set of public reporting requirements. One of these public reports is linked above, and below i...
AP | STEPHEN BERNARD | Posted 08.14.2009 | Business
NEW YORK — Goldman Sachs is emerging as the king of post-meltdown Wall Street. Already the nation's most powerful financial company before the ...
Jill Schlesinger | Posted 08.13.2009 | Business
Goldman Sachs has benefited from a lack of competition: with fewer players in the game, spreads have been wider, allowing for more robust profits for those who have the wherewithal to enter the game.
bloomberg.com | Jonathan Weil | Posted 08.10.2009 | Business
July 9 (Bloomberg) -- Never let it be said that the Justice Department can't move quickly when it gets a hot tip about an alleged crime at a Wall Stre...
The Wall Street Journal | AARON LUCCHETTI | Posted 08.01.2009 | Business
Financial markets are recovering and the jostling for talent is intensifying as securities firms once again are making money -- and they look set to s...
Reuters | Posted 07.27.2009 | Business
I just got off the phone with Lucas van Praag, the top flack at Goldman Sachs, who called Matt Taibbi's piece on the bank "hysterical". He also sent m...
Adam Hanft | Posted 07.13.2009 | Business
Don't you think there's something massively wrong with these Masters of Arrogance paying off their debt with a little bit of interest, puffing out their chests to their former levels of self-inflation, and re-commencing their old ways, albeit with a bit less recklessness?
Nassim Nicholas Taleb | Posted 05.21.2009 | Business
So long as Goldman Sachs may need us again in the future, whatever bonus they are paying today is a bonus that may be covered by the taxpayer tomorrow.
NY Times | ANDREW ROSS SORKIN | Posted 04.24.2009 | Business
Any good news these days -- not that there is much -- seems to come with an asterisk. The market is popping, but, as some bears ask, is it just a setu...
Miles Mogulescu | Posted 04.18.2009 | Politics
If the American people come to see the Obama administration as complicit in Wall Street's unethical behavior, then Obama's entire economic program could end up in shambles.
Brett Ashley McKenzie | Posted 12.18.2008 | Business
Just across the river from the Statue of Liberty's promise of welcome, the tired and poor are not even an afterthought.
Bloomberg | Posted 12.18.2008 | Business
Goldman Sachs Group Inc., the firm that set a record for Wall Street pay last year, became the first U.S. bank to scrap 2008 bonuses for senior office...
Bloomberg News | Posted 11.27.2008 | Business
Five straight quarters of losses and a 70 percent slide in its stock this year haven't stopped Merrill Lynch & Co. from allocating about $6.7 billion ...
Robert Reed | Posted 11.22.2008 | Chicago
Yuletide Cheer is rare, except on Wall Street, which is licking its collective chops in anticipation of yet another round of big annual payouts.
New York Post | Mark DeCambre with Zachery Kouwe | Posted 06.26.2008 | Business
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...
AP | Joe Del Bruno | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business
This might have been one of Wall Street's most dismal years in a decade, but that hasn't stopped bonus checks from rising an average of 14 percent. F...
Felix Salmon | Posted 09.07.2009 | Business