FCIC says Goldman Sachs is playing the American people for 'chumps'
The Federal Crisis Inquiry Commission is pretty pissed at Goldman Sachs. Actually, make that really pissed. “We’re not going to let the American people be played for chumps here,” said co-chair Phil Angelides. His colleague Bill Thomas added that Goldman is attempting a "very deliberate effort to run out the clock.” Felix Salmon offers the back story:
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High-frequency trader Getco hires key SEC staffer
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Financial Reform Conference Committee Offers Industry Lobbyists Chance to Reunite With Former Bosses
WASHINGTON -- Lobbyists for the financial services industry enjoy longstanding ties to the members of Congress who were named this week to the conference committee on financial reform legislation, according to a joint analysis of available data released today by Public Citizen and the Center for Responsive Politics.
http://www.opensecrets.org/news/2010/06/financial-reform-conference-committ.html
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June 10, 2010, 6:32 pm
BP’s Mess, and Wall Street’s
By WILLIAM D. COHAN
Just because you can do something, does that mean you should? It’s a question that might have saved us a lot of pain in recent months if both Goldman Sachs and British Petroleum had asked it of themselves during the last decade.
Sure, Goldman, and other Wall Street firms, could — and did — create “synthetic C.D.O.s” to allow consenting investors, including Goldman itself, to gamble on the risk in the U.S. housing market. Sure, Goldman and others could — and did — package up mortgages that should never have been issued into mortgage-backed securities and sold them to investors around the world who, in turn, abdicated their responsibility to investigate the soundness of the investment because some rating agency — paid by the underwriters — had slapped a AAA-rating on them. That technology existed, and Goldman and others just availed themselves of it, right? Besides, they were simply supplying the demands of the marketplace, right?
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http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/06/10/bps-mess-and-wall-streets/
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