tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5724181159639068489.post5538832486825203119..comments2023-11-05T05:09:14.089-05:00Comments on Goldman Sachs: Information, Comments, Opinions and Facts: Goldman Sachs's New Guy: Darrell IssaRobertMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03960912417983904202noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5724181159639068489.post-47213741998771703222011-07-13T09:57:32.556-04:002011-07-13T09:57:32.556-04:00Good post. I study something tougher on totally di...Good post. I study something tougher on totally different blogs everyday. It should at all times be stimulating to learn content material from other writers and follow a bit something from their store...What is a Free Credit Scorehttp://free--creditscore.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5724181159639068489.post-1378569145141875982011-07-01T10:38:16.610-04:002011-07-01T10:38:16.610-04:00Great links everyone. Thanks!Great links everyone. Thanks!Joycenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5724181159639068489.post-16051188570841258652011-07-01T10:13:42.845-04:002011-07-01T10:13:42.845-04:00JPMorgan Scores Victory for Repeat Offenders: Jona...JPMorgan Scores Victory for Repeat Offenders: Jonathan Weil<br /><br />Read just about any article in the financial press about a Securities and Exchange Commission settlement with some accused fraudster, and you probably will see two lines bound to get a lot of eyes rolling.<br /><br />One is that the defendant neither admitted nor denied the SEC’s claims. The other is that the penalties include a court injunction or SEC order barring the alleged crook from breaking the securities laws in the future, as if it had been perfectly legal to violate them beforehand. No one, it seems, ever gets nailed for anything.<br /><br />As if that weren’t maddening enough, here’s an open secret: The SEC hardly ever enforces these obey-the-law orders.<br /><br />http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-06-30/jpmorgan-scores-victory-for-repeat-offenders-jonathan-weil.html<br /><br /><br />....and you wonder why it's business as usual?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5724181159639068489.post-88666932090459307112011-07-01T10:01:43.579-04:002011-07-01T10:01:43.579-04:00Goldman’s Central Bank Connections Deepen
The rev...Goldman’s Central Bank Connections Deepen<br /><br />The revolving door between Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (GS) and central banks is spinning again.<br /><br />The fifth-biggest U.S. bank by assets said yesterday it hired Bank of England economist Andrew Benito after recruiting Huw Pill from the European Central Bank in May and Naohiko Baba from the Bank of Japan in January. Moving in the other direction, Ben Broadbent, Goldman Sachs’s ex-chief U.K. economist, started at the Bank of England last month. Former vice chairman Mario Draghi will take up the presidency of the ECB in November.<br /><br />The targeting of central banks reflects the value banks such as New York-based Goldman Sachs place on the skills economists gather working in policy-making at a time when growth in advanced economies is struggling to gain momentum. Meantime, governments seeking top officials are again turning to Goldman Sachs for top decision-makers 12 months after it settled U.S. fraud claims and almost four years since the start of the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression. <br /><br />http://www.globalperspectives.info/our-perspective-blog/geopolitics-blog/3978-goldmans-central-bank-connections-deepenAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5724181159639068489.post-23437846698718003912011-07-01T09:38:14.811-04:002011-07-01T09:38:14.811-04:00What Does Congress Do When They Are Caught Red Han...What Does Congress Do When They Are Caught Red Handed Caving To Special Interest Groups, and are Deeply Captured, Why They Give Regulatory Powers To The Very People Whom The Regulation Applies To. That's Right Congress, Let's Try Self Regulation In Light Of The Greatest Financial Attack On America By Those Who Now Will Wield The Power Of Self Regulation. Cowardly and Pathetic Move Idiots !!<br /> <br />http://cryptogon.com/?p=23239Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5724181159639068489.post-51755922646740853652011-06-30T16:08:38.896-04:002011-06-30T16:08:38.896-04:00Gupta SEC Case Postponed Indefinitely
The admin...Gupta SEC Case Postponed Indefinitely<br /><br /><br /><br />The administrative charges against Gupta, accused of passing tips about Goldman Sachs, on whose board he served, caused something of a furor. <br /><br />http://www.finalternatives.com/node/17248<br /><br /><br />Hmmm...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5724181159639068489.post-55824852661228180622011-06-30T14:15:10.113-04:002011-06-30T14:15:10.113-04:00GOP "Committing Class Warfare"
"Th...GOP "Committing Class Warfare"<br /><br />"The only thing that Cantor missed is that usually they say when President Obama does something like that or when we do something like that they usually accuse us of 'class warfare.' When in fact, we're not committing class warfare, we're just pointing out how they've committed class warfare for two decades by loading up the tax code with all these breaks for people who already have privilege," Brown said.<br /><br />http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2011/06/30/sen_sherrod_brown_gop_committing_class_warfare.htmlAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5724181159639068489.post-77651669405970415732011-06-30T13:54:28.662-04:002011-06-30T13:54:28.662-04:00How Much Would It Cost To Buy Congress Back From S...How Much Would It Cost To Buy Congress Back From Special Interests? (June 30, 2011)<br /><br /><br />Here's a thought: let's buy our Congress back from the special interests who now own it.<br /><br />We all know special interests own the U.S. Congress and the Federal machinery of governance (i.e. regulatory capture). How much would it cost the American citizenry to buy back their Congress? The goal in buying our Congress back from the banking cartel et al. would not be to compete with the special interests for congressional favors--it would be to elect a Congress which would eradicate their power and influence altogether.<br /><br />A tall order, perhaps, but certainly not impossible, if we're willing to spend the money to not just match special interest contributions to campaigns but steamroll them.<br /><br />A seat in the U.S. Senate is a pricey little lever of power, so we better be ready to spend $50 million per seat. Seats in smaller states will be less, but seats in the big states will cost more, but this is a pretty good average.<br /><br />That's $5 billion to buy the Senate. <br /><br />http://www.oftwominds.com/blogjune11/buy-congress-back6-11.htmlAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5724181159639068489.post-57149691727402094002011-06-30T13:43:11.878-04:002011-06-30T13:43:11.878-04:00“The evolution of executive grandeur — from very c...“The evolution of executive grandeur — from very comfortable to jet setting — reflects one of the primary reasons that the gap between those with the highest incomes and everyone else is widening,” according to the Post. <br /><br />“For years, statistics have depicted growing income disparity in the United States, and it has reached levels not seen since the Great Depression.<br /><br />Despite the ongoing, international financial malaise, the British newspaper The Guardian notes that, “The globe’s richest have now recouped the losses they suffered after the 2008 banking crisis. They are richer than ever, and there are more of them — nearly 11 million — than before the recession struck. <br /><br />The annual wealth report by Merrill Lynch and Capgemini finds that the assets of these so-called “high net worth individuals” reached $42.7 trillion in 2010, a rise of nearly ten percent from the previous year at a time when, as The Guardian observed, “austerity budgets were implemented by many governments in the developed world.”<br /><br />More than half of the world’s richest live in Japan, Germany and here in the United States.<br /><br /><br />Last year’s Dodd-Frank financial reform legislation requires publicly traded companies to report the median of annual total compensation for workers, the total compensation of the CEO, and the ratio between the two. <br /><br />Big business has lobbied loudly against the reporting requirement, and on Wednesday, the House Financial Services Committee voted 33-21 to repeal it.<br /><br />The bill to repeal is sponsored by rookie Congresswoman Nan Hayworth, R-New York, whose official biography cites “reducing regulatory burdens on businesses” as one of her top priorities.<br /><br />Among her leading 2010 campaign contributors: leveraged buyout specialists Vestar Capital Partners, distressed debt investors Elliott Management and financial services giant Credit Suisse. Not to mention the anti-taxation Club for Growth.<br /><br />Ernest Hemingway claimed that when F. Scott Fitzgerald once said to him, “The rich are different from you and me,” he archly replied, “Yes, they have more money.”<br /><br />Whether it’s true or not, the Hemingway in the story got it wrong.<br /><br />The rich not only have more money, they have more power, more clout — and more to hide.<br /><br />http://consortiumnews.com/2011/06/28/a-land-of-haves-and-have-nots/Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5724181159639068489.post-82083306048621125372011-06-30T12:22:58.924-04:002011-06-30T12:22:58.924-04:00Corruption?...where does it start? where does it e...Corruption?...where does it start? where does it end? Who do you call?<br /><br /><br />William Galison Author of Article on the Murder of Sunny Sheu Assaulted and Threatened by Undercover Cop<br /><br />I have no question that this cop was surveilling me because of my involvement with the Sunny case. He may have been casing my building for a way to get in. There is no question that many very bad people want me dead. Sunny was killed for exposing financial corruption. I have exposed murder.<br /><br />They killed Sunny partly to stop his investigation of Golia and partly to send a warning to the public that you can't fight corruption. <br /><br />http://www.zerohedge.com/article/william-galison-author-article-murder-sunny-sheu-assaulted-and-threatened-undercover-cop?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5724181159639068489.post-32571455555280308002011-06-30T12:05:09.119-04:002011-06-30T12:05:09.119-04:00How Greed Destroys America
America’s corporate chi...How Greed Destroys America<br />America’s corporate chieftains are living like kings while the middle class stagnates and shrivels<br /><br />By posing as populists hostile to “government social engineering,” the Right succeeded in duping large numbers of middle-class Americans into seeing their own interests – and their “freedom” – as in line with corporate titans who also decried federal regulations, including those meant to protect average citizens, like requiring seat belts in cars and discouraging cigarette smoking.<br /><br />A Land for Billionaires<br /><br />The consequences of several decades of Reaganism and its related ideas are now apparent. Wealth has been concentrated at the top with billionaires living extravagant lives that not even monarchs could have envisioned, while the middle class shrinks and struggles, with one everyman after another being shoved down into the lower classes and into poverty.<br /><br />Millions of Americans forego needed medical care because they can’t afford health insurance; millions of young people, burdened by college loans, crowd back in with their parents; millions of trained workers settle for low-paying jobs; millions of families skip vacations and other simple pleasures of life.<br /><br /><br />http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/06/28-12Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5724181159639068489.post-32168010929113903132011-06-30T10:54:38.646-04:002011-06-30T10:54:38.646-04:00Average guy doesn't have a shot in hell...
Th...Average guy doesn't have a shot in hell...<br /><br />The Supreme Court’s continuing defense of the powerful<br /><br />The United States Supreme Court now sees its central task as comforting the already comfortable and afflicting those already afflicted.<br /><br />If you are a large corporation or a political candidate backed by lots of private money, be assured that the court’s conservative majority will be there for you, solicitous of your needs and ready to swat away those pesky little people who dare to contest your power.<br /><br /><br />http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-supreme-courts-continuing-defense-of-the-powerful/2011/06/29/AGUO8MrH_story.htmlAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com