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blogs.cqpolitics.com - 12/12/2008
Pay-To-Play and the Auto Bailout
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Bloomberg has one of my favorite perennial Washington pay-to-play stories: Goldman Sachs Group Inc.'s political action committee contributed the maximum $10,000 to Connecticut Republican Christopher Shays's effort this year to keep his House seat. Shays lost. Two weeks later, the PAC gave ...
washingtonpost.com - 12/14/2008
U.S. 'Not Getting What We Pay For'
— washingtonpost.com — Comments that include profanity or personal attacks or other inappropriate comments or material will be removed from... the site. Additionally, entries that are unsigned or contain "signatures" by someone other than the actual author will be removed. ... (more) U.S. 'Not Getting What We Pay For'
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americablog.com - 12/13/2008
On Vitter: "He'd rather pay a prostitute than pay auto workers."
— americablog.com — Via Talking Points Memo , a UAW official in Shrevesport, Louisiana calls out his state's U.S. Senator,... David Vitter, who led the effort to kill the auto bailout in order to screw the American workers : Morgan Johnson, president of the United Auto ... (more) On Vitter: "He'd rather pay a prostitute than pay auto ...

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theamericanscene.com - 12/10/2008
Is There a Good Auto Bailout?
— theamericanscene.com — Sure, in principle. There appears to irresistible momentum behind a “temporary” bailout designed to forestall bankruptcy until... the new administration is in place. The problem with imagining that this does anything other than kicking the can down ... (more) Is There a Good Auto Bailout?
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NEW YORK — Goldman Sachs Group Inc. on Tuesday reported its first quarterly loss since it went public in 1999, losing $2.29 billion during its fiscal fourth quarter. The loss proves the turmoil in the financial markets has tripped up even the best-run financial institutions. The New ...
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Source: [b]BBC News[/b] US financial giant Goldman Sachs has reported a $2.12bn (£1.41bn) quarterly loss, its first since the investment bank went public in 1999. The loss, recorded in the three months to the end of November, was bigger than analysts had expected. During the same period ...
No Cheer For Investment Banks: Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs To Report Losses — The Huffington Post | Full News Feed
Morgan Stanley's expected to ring up losses of about $1 billion when it reports its fiscal fourth-quarter earnings Wednesday. Continued fretfulness in the stock market magnified by the latest $50 billion scandal with New York money manager Bernard Madoff, and a seizing up in credit markets, ...
Shorting state finances after being bailed...good for profits, but....??? — Angry Bear
rdan Hat tip ataxingmatter for the link to this matter in Bloomberg : Dec. 10 (Bloomberg) -- Goldman Sachs Group Inc., one of the top five U.S. municipal bond underwriters, is angering politicians and public-finance officials in New Jersey, Wisconsin, California and Florida by recommending ...
Oil Prices: Cliff Diving — Calculated Risk
The Goldman Sachs analyst who predicted oil at $200 per barrel in 2008, has lowered his 2009 forecast again. From The Times: Expert cuts $200-a-barrel oil forecast to $45 In a research note published late on Thursday, [Goldman Sachs oil analyst Arjun] Murti's team said that it had been ...