blogs.reuters.com - 6/25/2009
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He was probably born in a $4,000 suit, he had a face that seemed permanently frozen just short of an apology for being so much smarter than you, and he exuded a Spock-like, emotion-neutral exterior; the only human feeling you could imagine him experiencing was a nighmare about being forced to ...
trueslant.com - 6/30/2009
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After my Rolling Stone piece about Goldman, Sachs
hit the newsstands last week (unfortunately the piece is...
not yet up on the magazine’s web site, so I can’t link to it yet — but it is out in print), I started to get a lot of mail. Most of it was ...
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Matt Taibbi - Taibblog - On giving Goldman a chance
forums.somethingawful.com - 6/27/2009
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quote: THE GREAT AMERICAN BUBBLE MACHINE 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 By MATT TAIBBI The first thing you need to know ...
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[Taibbi] The Great American Bubble Machine (LF ...
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FT Alphaville —
Elsewhere on Thursday, - Citi’s pay-rises - good or bad? - At the ECB, forget the helicopter drops. - Conclusive evidence that the US stock market is highly inefficient. - Hedge-fund guy points to ‘Z’-shaped recovery . - The definitive crisis timelin. - Rolling Stone vs Goldman Sachs. - It takes a Citi… - Why delta hedging matters. - We’ve broken our addiction to oil , Tom! - Dogs or darlings? The Dow’s 5 cheapest stock. - News weeklies: Why The Economist thrives while Time and Newsweek fade. ...
Thursday links: nomination devaluation
Abnormal Returns —
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If we shrink Wall Street too much are we at risk of “relinquishing global dominance in finance”? (WSJ)
A great deal of chatter about the Matt Taibbi article that examines how Goldman Sachs (GS) has been at the forefront of every bubble since the Great Depression. (Zero Hedge also Felix Salmon)
The Fed engages in a debt-for-equity swap with ...
Rolling Stone: Goldman Sachs - The Wall Street Bubble Mafia
Fund My Mutual Fund —
... shorting was also banned - and it worked effectively. Amazing isn't it. I could go on (for a very long time) but I'll spare you ... p.s. if you have qualms with anything coming out of Rolling Stone of value in regards to finance - the writer Taibbi is someone I've read many pieces from over the year and could write for the Wall Street Journal just as easily. We cited the March piece from Taibbi on AIG and the "Wall Street Revolution" (a masterpiece) Felix Salmon has some nice outtakes and his opinion on the Goldman piece... Suffice to ...
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