trueslant.com - 7/17/2009
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The clue may come from a February 5 letter by the Federal Reserve to Goldman CAO Sarah Smith. The letter had come in response to GS requests for “temporary exemptions from the application of certain aspects of the Board’s Market Risk Rules for state member banks and bank holding companies and ...
trueslant.com - 7/16/2009
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Equity underwriting boomed during the period as dozens
of banks raised money to strengthen capital and repay...
Troubled Asset Relief Program funds. The business reported record revenue of $736 million.via Article - WSJ.com . So what’s wrong with Goldman ...
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Matt Taibbi - Taibblog - The real price of ...
business.theatlantic.com - 7/11/2009
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business.theatlantic.com —
This Eric Martin post reminds me that a
number of you have asked me what I thought...
of Matt Taibbi's Rolling Stone piece on Goldman Sachs. What I think, sadly, is that Matt Taibbi is becoming the Sarah Palin of...
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Matt Taibbi Gets His Sarah Palin On
meganmcardle.theatlantic.com - 7/11/2009
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This Eric Martin post reminds me that a
number of you have asked me what I thought...
of Matt Taibbi's Rolling Stone piece on Goldman Sachs. What I think, sadly, is that Matt Taibbi is becoming the Sarah Palin of journalism. He seems to ...
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Matt Taibbi Gets His Sarah Palin On
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And You Thought You Hated Goldman
Newshoggers.com —
... By Ron Beasley
Everybody hates Goldman Sachs - Matt Taibbi, Paul Krugman and even The Wall Street Journal. But nobody hates them as much as Max Keiser.
And he's not too crazy about the Obama administration either. Can you imagine them letting this guy on US TV? ...
Dan Sweeney: Embracing the Crazy
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... Remember the Bush years? Yeah, yeah. I know -- you'd rather forget. But stay with me here, ace, because this is important. Throughout that post-9/11 Age of Darkness and Despair, a whole segment of the left wing slipped off the deep end and believed that the Bush administration caused 9/11. Hell, you're probably already familiar with the 9/11 Truth movement. Rolling Stone's Matt Taibbi, now enjoying his role as the scourge of Goldman Sachs, made an interesting comparison between the movement and the right-wing's swirly eyed Jesus freaks in his book ...
Chez Pazienza: Fighting Words
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... The comments that have some of the usual suspects on the left in such a tizzy come from Taibbi's blog (which as far as I'm concerned is required reading) and have to do with the current battle over health care reform. At first glance, they seem to defend the tactics of the Bush administration. ...
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trueslant.com 6/30/2009 — 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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