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Geithner Interviewed By Bloomberg: Says Goldman Would Have Failed, Dismisses Tobin Tax (VIDEO)

Posted 12.05.2009 | Business

Read More: Lloyd Blankfein, Goldman Sachs, Geithner, Bailout, Tobin Tax, Treasury, Financial Crisis, Timothy Geithner, Bank Bailout, Goldman, Business News

During an interview this week on Bloomberg's Political Capital with Al Hunt, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner disputed claims made by Goldman Sachs...

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Goldman Sachs' Flubs Shielding JPMorgan From Public Vitriol: David Reilly

bloomberg.com | David Reilly | Posted 12.04.2009 | Business

Read More: Lloyd Blankfein, JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, Too Big to Fail, David Reilly, Timothy Geithner, Jamie Dimon, Break-Up-the-Big-Banks, Business News

JPMorgan Chase & Co. lists lots of assets, ranging from loans to securities to cash, on its $2 trillion balance sheet. Not to be found is one that mig...

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Prize of the Meritocracy

Rob Fishman | Posted 12.02.2009 | Books

Read More: Lloyd Blankfein, Warren Buffett, Goldman Sachs, Michael Young, Goldman Sachs Bonuses, Meritocracy, Rise of the Meritocracy, Books News
Rob Fishman

Goldman Sachs is, by its own account, a meritocracy -- a word first used by Michael Young in 1958. In the half-century since, we seem to have forgotten that the original work was satire.

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Goldman Sachs Staff Buying Guns 'To Defend Themselves Against Public Uprising'

bloomberg.com | Alice Schroeder | Posted 12.01.2009 | Business

Read More: Lloyd Blankfein, Goldman Sachs, Goldman Sachs Guns, Goldman Sachs Warren Buffett, Lucas Van Pragg, Goldman Sachs Firearms, Blankfein House, Henry Paulson, New York Police Department, Business News

"I just wrote my first reference for a gun permit," said a friend, who told me of swearing to the good character of a Goldman Sachs Group Inc. banker ...

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Goldman Bans "Last Suppers"; Suspends 1st Amendment!

Tom Gregory | Posted 12.01.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Lloyd Blankfein, Goldman Sachs, The Last Supper, Lehman Brothers, Subprime Mortgage Crisis, Doing God's Work, Bear Stearns, Comedy News, Comedy News
Tom Gregory

Editor's note: the following blog post is satire. Reuterz, New York - In swift reaction to recent calls for his resignation, Lloyd Blankfein, Chairma...

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Lloyd Blankfein Gives Thanks

Andy Stern | Posted 11.25.2009 | Business

Read More: Lloyd Blankfein, Goldman Sachs, Wall Street, Financial Reform, Seiu, Banks, Financial Crisis, Stella D'Oro, Foreclosure, Service Employees International Union, Andy Stern, Business News
Andy Stern

Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein has a lot to be thankful for this year. But among it all, he and other Wall Stree CEOs don't seem especially thankful for the American people.

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Still Doing God's Work On Wall Street

Robert Scheer | Posted 11.25.2009 | Business

Read More: Robert Scheer, Tarp, Treasury Secretary, Timothy Geithner, Goldman Sachs, Clinton, Lawrence Summers, Aig, Lloyd Blankfein, Business News
Robert Scheer

Why is Summers once again running the show with Geithner when both have made careers of exhibiting total contempt for the public interest? Because there's no accountability for the high rollers of finance.

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What Artists Could Teach Goldman Sachs

Ruth Sherman | Posted 11.21.2009 | Business

Read More: Lloyd Blankfein, Leadership, Goldman Sachs, Education, Elliot W. Eisner, Public Relations, Arts, Stanford University, Education Reform, Arts Education, Communication, Business News
Ruth Sherman

As Goldman Sachs may be discovering, belatedly and to its chagrin, image matters. Perception is reality. Therefore, if we want business and government to do better by us, we need more arts education, not less.

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Lloyd Blankfein Has A Reality Problem

Andy Stern | Posted 11.24.2009 | Business

Read More: Lloyd Blankfein, Goldman Sachs, Wall Street, Financial Crisis, Stella D'Oro, Bonuses, Bronx, Wall Street Bonuses, Andy Stern, Business News
Andy Stern

Lloyd Blankfein doesn't get it. If he really wants to change Goldman Sachs' image, he's got to change reality.

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The Key Question No One Asked About Goldman's Role In The AIG Bailout

Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 11.21.2009 | Business

Read More: Lloyd Blankfein, Treasury Department, Goldman Sachs, Aig, Hank Paulson, Lehman, Politics, Congress Joint Economic Committee, Oil, Federal Reserve, Timothy Geithner, Ben Bernanke, Financial Crisis, Pimco, Business News
Raymond J. Learsy

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?

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Goldman Sachs Shareholders Ask Bank To Cut Down HUGE Bonuses

Posted 11.20.2009 | Business

Read More: Lloyd Blankfein, Goldman Sachs, Goldman Sachs Shareholders, Financial Reform, Alliancebernstein, Banks, Bonuses, Bank Bonuses, Wall Street Bonuses, Business News

Think of it as an atypical example of "shareholder activism." Several of the biggest shareholders of Goldman Sachs -- which, it should be noted, has m...

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Goldman and the Smell of Guilt

Charles Gasparino | Posted 11.23.2009 | Business

Read More: Lloyd Blankfein, Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, Wall Street, Wall Street Bonuses, Barack Obama, Citigroup, Business News
Charles Gasparino

What CEO bypasses shareholders in an attempt to buy off public outrage over billion dollar bonuses if such outrage isn't justified in the first place?

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Goldman Sachs, Warren Buffett To Help Small Businesses

AP | Posted 11.18.2009 | Business

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NEW YORK -- Goldman Sachs Group Inc. said Tuesday it is teaming with billionaire investor Warren Buffett to invest $500 million to provide thousands o...

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Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein APOLOGIZES For Bank's Role in Financial Crisis

bloomberg.com | Christine Harper and Matt Townsend | Posted 11.17.2009 | Business

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Lloyd Blankfein, chairman and chief executive officer of Goldman Sachs Group Inc., apologized for the firm's role in some of the activities leading to...

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Protestors to Goldman Sachs: "You Are Not God" - Bernanke Explains Why

Mike Elk | Posted 11.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Matt Taibbi, Lloyd Blankfein, Goldman Sachs, Financial Transaction Tax, Federal Reserve, National People's Action, Manufacturing, Ben Bernanke, Dean Baker, Politics News
Mike Elk

Goldman Sachs is, in the words of Rolling Stone journalist Matt Taibbi, "a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money."

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My Response to JP Morgan's Jamie Dimon: More to Life Than Efficiency

Paul Abrams | Posted 11.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Lloyd Blankfein, Goldman Sachs, Jamie Dimon, BreakUpTheBigBanks.Com, Politics News
Paul Abrams

Juxtaposed against the harm big banks have already and can do again, JP Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon's arguments for scale, even if true, are woefully inadequate.

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Goldman Sachs: It's Time to Put Country Before Company

Andy Stern | Posted 11.16.2009 | Business

Read More: Lloyd Blankfein, Banks, Goldman Sachs, Wall Street, Service Employees International Union, Seiu, Andy Stern, Business News
Andy Stern

We're taking to the streets because it seems as if companies like Goldman Sachs love their company more than their country. Goldman Sachs seems to salute no flag but their own corporate logo.

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Wall Street Drawing Unprecedented Amount Of Anger: Bloomberg's Susan Antilla

bloomberg.com | Susan Antilla | Posted 11.16.2009 | Business

Read More: Lloyd Blankfein, Financial Crisis, Obama Administration, Goldman Sachs, Bailout, Wall Street, Recession, Fiscal Policy, Business News

In the 14 years I've written columns for Bloomberg News, I've had plenty of feedback from investors who said they lost money at the hands of corrupt b...

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How to Live on $0 a Day: Assuaging Rage, One Prick at a Time

Lesley Stern | Posted 11.12.2009 | Comedy

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Lesley Stern

If you're quivering with rage just thinking about Wall Street, it's time to take action. I've discovered a way to achieve a semblance of inner peace without therapists, tranquilizers or weapons.

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Goldman Sach's Charity Filings Reveal Foundation's Complex Trades

New York Times | GERALDINE FABRIKANT | Posted 11.12.2009 | Business

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The 2008 tax filing for the Goldman Sachs Foundation, a copy of which was provided by the firm late Wednesday, provides a glimpse of the legendary tra...

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Fed Releases Rare "Snapshot" on Economy

Tom Gregory | Posted 11.12.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Lloyd Blankfein, Funny, Goldman Sachs, Lehman Brothers, Subprime Mortgage Crisis, Feds, Federal Reserve, Economic Recovery, V Graph, Ben Bernanke, Train Wreck, Bearish, Bullish-Market, Unemplyment, Snapshot, Recession, Comedy News
Tom Gregory

In a rare glimpse behind the closed-doors of The Federal Reserve, Chairman Ben Bernanke released a snapshot of the economy they have been looking at for months.

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Afghanistan: Buckle Your Seat Belts

Michael Brenner | Posted 11.11.2009 | World

Read More: Lloyd Blankfein, Stanley McChrystal, Barack Obama Afghanistan, Taliban, Afghanistan, Al Qaeda, Afghanistan War, World News
Michael Brenner

Rarely has a great power so willfully set itself down the path of self-destruction with so little reason as America has in Afghanistan. This is pathological behavior that cries out for diagnosis and correction.

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Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein: Our Employees Are Among The Most Productive In The World

The Huffington Post | Ryan McCarthy | Posted 11.11.2009 | Business

Read More: Lloyd Blankfein, Goldman Sachs, Bank-Holding Company, Bailout, Bank of America, Goldman Sachs CEO, Banks, Goldman Sachs Productivity, Business News

For those concerned about how Goldman Sachs is set to bring in record-breaking profits while the broader economy remains downright stalled, there is o...

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The Lloyd's Prayer

Tom Gregory | Posted 11.12.2009 | Comedy

Read More: The Lord's Prayer, Lloyd Blankfein, Goldman Sachs, Bear Stearns, Doing God's Work, Lehman Brothers, Subprime Mortgage Crisis, Comedy News
Tom Gregory

Our Chairman, Who Art At Goldman, Blankfein Be Thy Name.

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Murdoch, Limbaugh Make "Worst Persons In The World" On Countdown (VIDEO)

Posted 11.11.2009 | Media

Read More: Video, Lloyd Blankfein, Rush Limbaugh, Keith Olbermann, Worst Persons in the World, Rupert Murdoch, Countdown, Media News

On Countdown Monday, Olbermann awarded the bronze medal for "Worst Persons in the World" to Rush Limbaugh. The conservative radio host made light of ...

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