Banks are receiving the H1N1 vaccine because of their employees' importance to the financial well being of the country.
Charles Gasparino | Posted 11.09.2009 | Business
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.
HuffingtonPost.com | Shahien Nasiripour | Posted 11.05.2009 | Business
On three out of every five days this year, Wall Street's leading firm has made at least $100 million trading stocks and bonds, and creating and enteri...
Allison Kilkenny | Posted 10.22.2009 | Politics
The Times shows its agenda when it refers to the not-yet-existing AIG bonuses slashes as "the humbling downfall of the once-proud giants" while all those pesky citizens won't stop with the "populist animosity."
AP | STEPHEN BERNARD | Posted 10.15.2009 | Business
NEW YORK — Goldman Sachs Group Inc.'s third-quarter earnings more than tripled from the depths of the financial crisis as income from the compan...
Nathan Lewis | Posted 08.08.2009 | Business
Goldman has been making its money somewhat like a hedge fund: by buying and selling securities in the secondary market for profit. Why this activity should be government subsidized, I don't know.
nytimes.com | JENNY ANDERSON | Posted 09.06.2009 | Business
Lloyd C. Blankfein has a story about the cataclysm that nearly brought down all of Wall Street. It goes something like this: One by one, lesser banks ...
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, ...
Max Keiser | Posted 08.25.2009 | Business
The law will eventually catch up with Goldman Sachs, but only if the prosecution venue is moved outside of the U.S.
Nathan Lewis | Posted 08.23.2009 | Politics
Right from the beginning, there was a coordinated effort to allow the Goldman types to dump their mistakes on someone else.
Posted 08.22.2009 | Business
Ever wish you could be a fly on the wall at a Goldman Sachs board meeting? The New Yorker has come up with a hilarious spoof of a Goldman internal mem...
New York Times | PAUL KRUGMAN | Posted 08.16.2009 | Business
The American economy remains in dire straits, with one worker in six unemployed or underemployed. Yet Goldman Sachs just reported record quarterly pro...
Arianna Huffington | Posted 08.15.2009 | Business
We've now reached the point where the only people defending the administration's Wall Street policies are the people benefiting from them -- or their good friends, Tim Geithner and Larry Summers.
New York Times | GRAHAM BOWLEY and JENNY ANDERSON | Posted 08.12.2009 | Business
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...
bloomberg.com | Christine Harper | Posted 08.10.2009 | Business
July 10 (Bloomberg) -- Goldman Sachs Group Inc. is poised to report the largest profit since it set earnings records in 2007, marking the return of a ...
New York Times | ANDREW ROSS SORKIN | Posted 05.21.2009 | Business
This is starting to feel like amateur hour for aspiring magicians. Another day, another attempt by a Wall Street bank to pull a bunny out of the ha...
Arianna Huffington | Posted 05.21.2009 | Business
With my younger daughter away, I was looking forward to a quiet night in, curled up in bed with a few dozen pieces on the financial crisis I'd cut out from newspapers and magazines. But instead of reading a few and nodding off, I ended up staying up most of the night, getting more and more outraged with each article I read. These days, the business section is not for the faint of heart. READ MORE The Torture Moment The way we respond to the revelations about the Bush administration's use of torture will define the kind of country we are. It is a test of our courage and our convictions. So far, the media are not getting high marks. They can't seem to shake their addiction to looking at every issue through the archaic prism of right vs. left. READ MORE
Business Week | Peter Morici | Posted 05.16.2009 | Business
Monday afternoon, Goldman Sachs (NYSE:GS - News) reported much larger than expected first-quarter profits on the heels of the strong earnings Wells Fa...
The Big Picture | Barry Ritholtz | Posted 05.14.2009 | Business
Karl Denninger notes that a nasty rumor is circulating about Goldman Sachs amongst observers of the Street. Allegedly, GS is about to report their sec...
Christopher Brauchli | Posted 11.12.2009 | Business