Group Think, Duct Tape and Slam Dunks
THE NEW YORK TIMES August 9, 2009 Paulson’s Calls to Goldman Tested Ethics By GRETCHEN MORGENSON and DON VAN NATTA Jr. Before he became President George W. Bush’s Treasury secretary in 2006, Henry M. Paulson Jr. agreed to hold himself to a higher ethical standard than his predecessors. He not only sold all his holdings […]
MoreTHE GREAT AMERICAN BUBBLE MACHINE ROLLING STONE MATT TAIBBI From tech stocks to high gas prices, Goldman Sachs has engineered every major market manipulation since the Great Depression – and they’re about to do it again The first thing you need to know about Goldman Sachs is that it’s everywhere. The world’s most powerful investment […]
MoreJun 17, 7:13 PM (ET) By JIM KUHNHENN and MARTIN CRUTSINGER ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON (AP) – From simple home loans to Wall Street’s most exotic schemes, the government would impose and enforce sweeping new “rules of the road” for the nation’s battered financial system under an overhaul proposed Wednesday by President Barack Obama. Aimed at […]
MoreU.S. lawmakers seek BofA-Merrill probe R E U T E R S Fri Apr 24, 2009 By Kim Dixon and Rachelle Younglai WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Momentum is building among U.S. lawmakers to investigate Bank of America’s (BAC.N: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz) purchase of Merrill Lynch, amid allegations that federal officials gave the bank’s chief […]
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