Goldman Sachs Responds To The New York Times
Did Goldman Sachs dissemble and equivocate in its responses to the New York Times?
Did Goldman Sachs dissemble and equivocate in its responses to the New York Times?
Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 11.21.2009 | Business
Did Goldman and the other banks know for certain that the bankruptcy of AIG was no longer a risk for them? That the Fed and Treasury were now irrevocably committed to saving AIG?
Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 10.19.2009 | Business
Goldman was not assisted by the government to become a voracious and even heftier investment bank. Rather, one can presume that the government's assistance was to prevent systemic failure.
Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 10.14.2009 | Business
It is scandalous that those in government vested with the responsibility of financial oversight have permitted a culture of "heads they win, tails we lose" to take hold and to grow into a financial Frankenstein.
Huffington Post/AP | Posted 11.14.2009 | Business
(AP) NEW YORK — Lecturing Wall Street on its own turf, President Barack Obama warned financial leaders not to use the recovering economy to race...
The New York Times | LOUISE STORY and LANDON THOMAS Jr. | Posted 11.12.2009 | Business
True, thousands of financial industry jobs have vanished and several of the country's best-known banks and brokerage firms have disappeared. Since a p...
AP | Posted 04.17.2009 | Business
New Jersey is suing executives and board members of bankrupt Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc., claiming they solicited the state to buy stock in the inve...
Jim Luce | Posted 04.09.2009 | Business
"Our recovery may take years," the economist concluded over our last cup of coffee, "But smart people who work hard will always find a place." Talent will as always, he believes, find a home.
Jeff Madrick | Posted 03.24.2009 | Politics
Gramm's deregulationist spirit is all over this crisis.
Diane Francis | Posted 02.06.2009 | Business
Obama-nomics won't merely be the New Deal Part Two. It will have to be executed along with policies hammered out in partnership with the best minds and most enlightened leaders in the world.
The Guardian | Julia Kollewe | Posted 12.13.2008 | Business
The bankrupt investment bank Lehman Brothers wants to sell at least $8m (�5.2m) worth of the art collection that once decorated its offices. The new...
Bloomberg | Posted 11.10.2008 | Business
Executives passing the buck for failures that sank their companies or pushed them to the brink win no sympathy from business leaders and management ex...
Vivian Norris de Montaigu | Posted 10.30.2008 | Business
Denial was overtly present during a three hour dinner at an expensive sushi restaurant. Bankers threw stock prices into the conversation between the dishes of sashimi and cucumber martinis.
Johann Hari | Posted 10.20.2008 | Politics
In 1920, Big Oil picked an obscure, bumbling senator named Warren G. Harding who had barely been out of Ohio and had only fuzzy ideas about politics -- the 1920s equivalent of a hockey mom.
Jennifer Donahue | Posted 10.18.2008 | Politics
All Obama-Biden have to do now is talk about the banking crisis and the change in position of former deregulation champion John McCain.
HuffingtonPost.com | Seth Colter Walls | Posted 10.17.2008 | Politics
John McCain struck a tough, quasi-populist pose this morning during his morning sweep of the television news shows. Speaking to NBC's Matt Lauer about...
John Tepper Marlin | Posted 06.12.2008 | Green
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.
AP | Posted 03.29.2008 | Business
Standard & Poor's Ratings Services said Friday it cut its outlook on Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc., saying volatile marke...
Reuters | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business
Investment bank Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc (LEH.N) on Thursday said it would stop U.S. wholesale mortgage lending because of a continued slump in cr...
Janet Tavakoli | Posted 11.24.2009 | Business