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• Vampire Squid Apologizes

  —Skeptical CPA

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  "Goldman Sachs Group Inc. [GSG] said it is launching a $500 million small-business assistance program that includes an advisory panel with billionaire Warren Buffett. ... Tuesday [GSG] Chairman and Chief Executive Lloyd Blankfein apologized for his firm's role in the credit crisis. 'We participated in things that were clearly wrong" [...]

  Posted: December 04, 2009, 10:40am EST
  by Independent Accountant

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• The Problem of Executive Compensation: The Excess Continues

  —theRacetotheBottom

  The WSJ reported that Goldman has been visiting with shareholders in an attempt to justify its extraordinary compensation practices.  As the article notes:  "So far, Goldman has shown no signs of backing down to anger over the firm's pay and benefits, on track to hit a record high'" [...]

  Posted: December 03, 2009, 11:00am EST
  by J. Robert Brown

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• Annie Get Your Gun! And You Too, Goldman Rats!

  —Jr Deputy Accountant

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  Now why would the Goldman rats feel the need to start ammo-ing up? Someone get a tip that the angry mob might be grabbing those pitchforks or what?
  
  Bloomberg:
  
  “I just wrote my first reference for a gun permit,” said [...]

  Posted: December 02, 2009, 8:45pm EST
  by Jr Deputy Accountant

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• Who Cares Vampire Squid?

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  "Goldman Sachs Group Inc. Chairman and Chief Executive Lloyd Blankfein, defending the investment bank from public criticism over pay and profitability, said most of the bank's risk has been taken at clients' request to facilitate their activities. ... 'We are not lounging around in our sunglasses, basking in our certain'" [...]

  Posted: December 02, 2009, 10:59am EST
  by Independent Accountant

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• Goldman Sachs loading up on guns

  —Sox First

  For Goldman Sachs, this year has been a PR nightmare. For the merchant bank, it's as if the financial crisis never happened. After paying back billions of dollars in taxpayer funded bailout money, it paid annual bonuses that rivaled the record payouts it made in 2007, at the height of [...]

  Posted: December 02, 2009, 3:37am EST
  

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• No Christmas for Goldman Sachs

  —Jr Deputy Accountant

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  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.
  
  The firm has canceled its annual holiday party, [...]

  Posted: December 01, 2009, 5:13pm EST
  by Jr Deputy Accountant

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• Money and Glass Rain Down From Goldman Sachs

  —CPA.BLOG

  Did you know that a director from Goldman Sachs (with ownership of company stock) was also serving as a director of the New York Federal Reserve as it funneled bailout funds to Wall Street at the height of the financial crisis?

  Appalled? Well, at least it won't happen again: that loophole was closed' [...]

  Posted: November 30, 2009, 11:34am EST
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• Al Gore's Carbon Scam Revisted (With Special Guest Star Goldman Sachs!)

  —Jr Deputy Accountant

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  On May 1st, I did Al Gore and the green scam, specifically our buddy Al's connection to Goldman Sachs. The story has been getting quite a bit of play these days with the revelation that global warming may be a scientific work [...]

  Posted: November 25, 2009, 7:10pm EST
  by Jr Deputy Accountant

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• Vampire Squid Loses One

  —Skeptical CPA

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  "The US Treasury blocked Fannie Mae's proposed sale of nearly $3 billion in low-income housing credits to Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and Berkshire Hathaway Inc. after concluding the deal would lose too much money for taxpayers. The proposed sale would have resulted in a loss of tax revenue that would" [...]

  Posted: November 25, 2009, 10:46am EST
  by Independent Accountant

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• OMFG Al Gore! Global Warming is TOTALLY Fake! (No Really)

  —Jr Deputy Accountant

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  Did you know global warming is pure bullshit and has been exposed? Mish tells us (h/t WCV). Market Ticker also goes off on the subject. Twice.
  
  Where is Goldman Sachs going to get its cap and trade now, [...]

  Posted: November 21, 2009, 8:39pm EST
  by Jr Deputy Accountant

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• Vampire Squid Obfuscation

  —Skeptical CPA

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  "But most Americans know all too well that only the intervention of billions of dollars in taxpayer bailout money saved Goldman [GSG] from the dire fate of its less well-connected competitors. The growing ranks of under-and-unemployed Americans, meanwhile, are waiting with increasing desperation for a recovery of their own. Goldman" [...]

  Posted: November 21, 2009, 10:45am EST
  by Independent Accountant

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• The 70% Discount on Goldman's $500m Gift

  —TaxProf Blog

  Smart Money, The 70% Discount on Goldman's $500M Gift, by Diana Ransom: It’s been dubbed the apology with a half-billion-dollar gift attached. In an attention-grabbing move this week, Goldman Sachs said it would launch a $500 million initiative to help small businesses with Warren Buffett as a key adviser, an announcement... [...]

  Posted: November 20, 2009, 1:24pm EST
  by Paul Caron

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• More 'Fiscal Blood on the Tax Tracks'

  —TaxProf Blog

  Following up on my previous post, NY Times: LILOs & SILOSs Cause "Fiscal Blood on the Tracks": Business Week, Wall Street Plays Hardball: Across the nation, local governments and related public entities, already reeling from the recession, face another fiscal crisis: billions of dollars in fees owed to UBS, Goldman... [...]

  Posted: November 20, 2009, 12:40am EST
  by Paul Caron

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• Goldman Sachs Apologizes

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  Famed financial titan Goldman Sachs, one of the few Wall Street players to come out of the financial crisis relatively well, may have realized, perhaps, that defending billions of dollars in bonuses, all while saying you’re doing God’s work, might not be the best way to endear [...]

  Posted: November 19, 2009, 1:07pm EST
  by cgaetano

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• Vampire Squid Values

  —Skeptical CPA

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  "Sure, firm trumpet their values and missions. Goldman Sachs has 14 business principles, many of which could apply to a preschool. ('We stress creativity and imagination.')", Daniel Gross at Newsweek, 2 November 2009, link: [www.newsweek.com]
  I mentioned the Vampire Squid's (VS) values on 24 October 2008: [skepticaltexascpa.blogspot.com]. Hahahahahahaha' [...]

  Posted: November 15, 2009, 7:01pm EST
  by Independent Accountant

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• Goldman Sachs and God

  —Sox First

  Hard to go past this interview with Goldman Sachs boss Lloyd Blankfein in The Times where he claims bankers are doing "God's work"."We’re very important," Blankfein says. "We help companies to grow by helping them to raise capital. Companies that grow create wealth. This, in turn, allows people to have'" [...]

  Posted: November 09, 2009, 2:43am EST
  

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• Goldman Sachs: doing

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  Hard to go past this interview with Goldman Sachs boss Lloyd Blankfein in The Times where he claims bankers are doing "God's work"."We’re very important," Blankfein says. "We help companies to grow by helping them to raise capital. Companies that grow create wealth. This, in turn, allows people to have" [...]

  Posted: November 09, 2009, 2:43am EST
  

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• Goldman Sachs Economists on the Fed, This Should be Good

  —Jr Deputy Accountant

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  David Wessel (who did In Fed We Trust, which I have not yet finished but pretty much enjoyed - I've carried it with me on the Muni for the last month, does that count?) says Goldman analyzed the Fed or something. Who cares?[...]

  Posted: November 07, 2009, 3:47pm EST
  by Jr Deputy Accountant

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