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more about #goldmansachs more comments → Mediahohoho: Pack all the heat you want, boys. Just realize that every meal you eat in Manhattan is going to contain about 5% saliva, 10% urine and 30% human feca... more » valet_of_the_dolls: Everything else seems to make a comeback; why not the robber baron? more » Rozelle’s Bagman: "Please put $50 billion into this bag, abt natural. What is abt?" more » econdave: At Lehman they'd just shoot themselves in the foot. more » AzureTexan: I eagerly await Michael Moore's penetrating new Wall Street film, "Ruger & Me." more » Smitros: If it didn't work for Tony Montana, it won't work for them. more » Lymed: I find this scary considering the instances of suicides occurring by people who are losing their jobs and investments. more » BadUncle: The easier to rob you with, my dear. more » Swifter: Boom Boom Pow more » Rozelle’s Bagman: Justifiable homicide. more » TableNein: Original Bankster more » Mediahohoho: So this is why they killed Christ? more » The Real JR: Mind you, these were Rudy Giuliani's rules to keep "people" from "unlawfully gathering" or whatever he called it so he could have the cops harass folk... more » The Real JR: So basically, they're inviting their employees to meet up en masse at some locale (OTHER than St. Barth's, of course) to party away, anonymously, beca... more » Lymed: So much for my speed-dating with Goldman bachelors event I was planning. more » -
#banksters
Goldman Sachs Bankers Already Dangerous, Now Armed
According to Bloomberg's Alice Schroeder, senior Goldman Sachs bankers have begun applying for permits to carry concealed handguns, lending credence to Vanity Fair's Bethany McLean's assessment that "There is an embattled feeling around" Goldman now. Tom Wolfe, call your office. -
#holidaze
Goldman Employees Aren't Allowed to Hang Out in Groups of 12 or More
Goldman's Christmas celebration rules have a funny condition: they can't hang out in groups of twelve or more. More » -
#wishfulthinking
NYT Editorial Board to Goldman Sachs CEO's Apology: Shove It
Watching the NYT get feisty telling anyone to stick it up their ass (and use words like "absurd"): fun, even if it's Lloyd Blankfein. They end their editorial with the Bureau of the Public Debt's address. Wishful thinking. [NYT] -
#holidaze
Goldman Tells Employees Not to Have Christmas Parties in Their Homes
Goldman Sachs employees received a voicemail announcement instructing them not to organize private Christmas parties for the firm's employees even at their own homes, a person familiar with the matter said. More » -
#coincidences
So That's What a Blood-Sucking Vampire Squid Looks Like
Rolling Stone's Matt Taibbi famously called Goldman Sachs the "great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money." Turns out Nazi cartoonists came up with that image first. More » -
#figleaves
Goldman Sachs: Here's Some Money, Poor People. Now Shut Up About Our Bonuses
CEO Lloyd Blankfein has made yet another cursory PR gesture - a tiny fund for small businesses - designed to divert attention from $17bn in bonuses he's paying to the bankers who helped drive the economy, Zeppelin-like, into the ground. More » -
#goldmanproject
How the Credit Rating Agencies Engineered the Goldman Sachs Bailout
Last year's financial collapse was made possible by the greed and incompetence of credit rating agencies, who got paid to lie about the value of subprime debt. It turns out they were responsible for the Goldman Sachs bailout, too. More » -
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Goldman Sachs
This spring, construction workers at Goldman Sachs' new headquarters in Battery Park City discovered a pregnant feral cat. A local couple rescued the kittens and placed them in homes. Goldman Sachs agreed to pay for their veterinary costs.HatesPays Promptly for the Medical Costs of Adorable KittensThey didn't. More » -
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Women, Children and Goldman Sachs Bankers First
Goldman Sachs and Citigroup have obtained a total of 1,400 doses of swine flu vaccine from the city of New York, while many pediatricians wait for doses. On the other hand, money is more important than babies. -
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Number of trading days in last two quarters on which Goldman Sachs lost money: 3
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#goldmanproject
AIG Only Wanted to Give Goldman Sachs
Thanks to Bloomberg News, we now have a good idea how much of that $13 billion pass-through bailout Goldman Sachs got from AIG last year was pure taxpayer-financed gravy: $5.2 billion, courtesy Tim Geithner. More »4060 Cents on the Dollar, Then Geithner Stepped In -
#feuds
Andrew Ross Sorkin in Pissing Match with His Own Newspaper
First Andrew Ross Sorkin pissed off Charlie Gasparino. Now it's his colleagues: Some anonymous New York Times staffers are angry at him, Keith Kelly reports, for failing to credit the newspaper's scoops in his new book, Too Big to Fail. More » -
#goldmanproject
Goldman Sachs Executive and British Lord Finds Inequality Quite Tolerable
Lord Brian Griffiths of Fforestfach is a vice chairman at Goldman Sachs Intl., a life peer under England's nobility scheme, and Christian theorist of "biblically based wealth creation." Just the man to explain how Goldman's taxpayer-financed bonuses are perfectly moral. More » -
#goldmanproject
Goldman Sachs' Neediest Cases
In advance of Goldman Sachs' anticipated gargantuan charitable donation calculated to mask the stench of its taxpayer-financed cash bonanza, CityFile rummaged through the past recipients of Goldman's largesse. Guess what they found? Tony, preposterously expensive private prep schools, that's what! More » -
#recessionomics
Andrew Ross Sorkin's Front Row Seat to the End Of The World
Andrew Ross Sorkin's Too Big To Fail describes, in intimate detail, the days leading up to the collapse of the biggest financial institutions in America. Did the men in that room pull us from the brink or push us over? More » -
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Goldman Sachs Censors Gawker
It looks like Goldman Sachs is preventing its employees from reading Gawker. It's a precaution any workplace that values productivity might consider, especially an employer who's been targeted by a Gawker investigation. More » -
#goldmanproject
Announcing the Goldman Project
It's Thursday, so Goldman Sachs raked in billions with taxpayer help while you're still unemployed. The bank announced $3.1 billion in third-quarter profits today, and set aside $5.3 billion for bonuses. Help us find out how they spend it.
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#moneymatters
Goldman Donations to Spark Massive Cognitive Dissonance
Executives at Goldman-Sachs aren't known for their largess. But now, after the company and its powerful ties to DC have been dragged through the mud, officials may throw coin charity way. Sound good? Yes and no and maybe.
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#business
Deal! Warner Chilcott Ltd. will reportedly buy Procter & Gamble's prescription-drug wing for $3.1 billion.
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#optics
Lloyd Blankfein 'Looks Like Shit,' Is Jewish
Goldman Sachs is taking the whole "bloodsucking squidmonster" thing pretty seriously. CEO Lloyd Blankfein is losing sleep over how to pay out $11 billion in taxpayer financed bonuses without catching hell from anti-Semites like everybody. Heavy weighs the crown. More »
