GoldmanSachs Info and News Links - Oct. 1, 2009

Goldman Sachs Chief Talks Tough on Executive Bonuses
Looming over any discussion of tighter rules for the financial services industry is the question of what and how much banks should pay their top executives.
Zawya.com - Financial Services News - http://www.zawya.com/financial_services/

Could Goldman Sachs Share GM's Fate? | Daily Markets By Martin Hutchinson Investment banks have gotten fat off the land since 1982, when the great US bull market got its start. Their business has multiplied many-fold, and their. Daily Markets - http://www.dailymarkets.com/

PolitiFact Truth-O-Meter: Goldman Sachs contributions to Obama ... "I point out in the film that Goldman Sachs is his No. 1 private contributor," Moore answered. "But I voted for the guy. I'm still hopeful that he's going to do the right thing and side with us, and not Wall Street. ... Michael Moore - Mike in the News - http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/mikeinthenews/

Madoff Investor Chais Seeks Access to Goldman Sachs Account
Bloomberg
... funds in a Goldman Sachs Group Inc. account are part of the Madoff estate that should be returned to investors, according to a court filing yesterday. ...

Stay away from banks bearing commercial property-Goldman
Reuters
NEW YORK, Sept 30 (Reuters) - Goldman Sachs on Tuesday advised investors to shy away from banks and insurance companies that are heavily focused on ...

News in Film (blog)

Goldman Sachs Helped Moore's Capitalism Rant
News in Film (blog)
In between slices of smug voice over, Moore takes more than a few shots at the bank holding organization Goldman Sachs. He shows a rhetorical question by ...

GoldmanSachs Info and News Links - Sept. 30, 2009

Ex-VP trader sues Goldman for disability dismissal
Reuters
NEW YORK, Sept 30 (Reuters) - A former Goldman Sachs Group Inc (GS.N) vice president and trader accused the firm of dismissing her last year because of a ...

The secret to Goldman Sachs' good fortune
Goldman Sachs knows lots of important people. That fact is indisputable, mainly because former Goldman employees are scattered ...

US secretly tried to make deal with Goldman Sachs in wake of ...
By Raw Story
BREAKING 10:08 AM ET:Vanity Fair will report in the next issue of the magazine that US Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson — a former head of the investment bank Goldman Sachs — tried to orchestrate secretive deals in the midst of the ...
Raw Story - http://rawstory.com/2009/

RGE - An Inside Look at How Goldman Sachs Lobbies the Senate
By Mark Thoma
An Inside Look at How Goldman Sachs Lobbies the Senate, by Matt Taibbi: ...Later on this week I have a story coming out in Rolling Stone that looks at the history of the Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers collapses.
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Rolling Stone's Matt Taibbi: Goldman Sachs Continues Misleading ...
Huffington Post (blog)
According to Rolling Stone political reporter Matt Taibbi, financial firm Goldman Sachs is intentionally spreading misinformation through its lobbying ...

Hank Paulson's Speed Dial #1: Goldman Sachs | Froogalizer.com
By Vladimir
It would appear that employees of the NY Post can do more than merely plant stories and spread unfounded rumors. Some of them actually do investigative work.

Stella D'Oro workers fight both Goldman Sachs and City Hall in ...
New York Daily News
BY Mike Jaccarino Stella D'oro workers gathered outside of Goldman Sachs headquarters to protest the closing of their plant. Workers at the Stella D'Oro ...
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Geely denies Goldman Sachs' investment in Volvo
Zikkir World (blog)
... will issue HK$2.586 billion ($334 million) in convertible bonds and warrants to a private equity under Goldman Sachs through directional introduction

GoldmanSachs Info and News Links - Sept. 29, 2009

The Great Goldman Sachs Senate-Lobbying Fail | The Awl
By Choire
Adorable! Goldman Sachs is, as always, down in DC, lobbying Congress. Except now, unlike the quiet, dignified reception to which the GS folks are accustomed,

One of those seemingly-plausible analyses that could just as ...
By Andrew Gelman
Then he drew up a simple list, ranking the institutions from most to least Republican: Bear Stearns, Lehman Brothers, Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs. (Yes, Republican Hank Paulson is an alumnus of Goldman Sachs. ...

Economist's View: "An Inside Look at How Goldman Sachs Lobbies the ...
By Mark Thoma
I am not as negative toward naked short-selling as Matt Taibbi (feel free to convince me I'm wrong), but his insights into the lobbying effort against financial reform are useful, and I share his concerns about the distortions (eg ...

Goldman's Bane Assails Firm on Lobbying Effort
New York Times
It is no surprise that Goldman Sachs has been lobbying Congress hard over the past few months as Washington debates new rules to curb financial speculation. ...

An Inside Look at How Goldman Sachs Lobbies the Senate
True/Slant
Two guys from Goldman Sachs, plus reps from Citigroup, Citadel (a hedge fund that has done the occasional short sale, to put it gently), Credit Suisse, ...

Goldman Sachs, and a History of Financial Crisis | CrossLeft
I thought of Groucho's quote when I read Matt Taibbi's article for the July 13, 2009 edition of Rolling Stone magazine on the role that Goldman Sachs has played in contributing to the tech bubble of the 1990s and the housing bubble of ...

Bailed-out Goldman Sachs, CEO land top honors
Boston Herald
By Jay Fitzgerald A Boston-based magazine

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