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    a day for pitchforks

    It’s the best of times for Goldman Sachs, and the worst of times for the rest of us.

    Ironic that this news would break on Bastille Day:

    Goldman Sachs’ profits for the second quarter smashed Wall Street estimates and are likely to trigger a windfall for bankers.

    The bank, long considered the most prestigious and profitable on Wall Street, recorded [...]



    unfuckingbelievable

    I tried to post on this yesterday, but Li’l Kim clogged my intertoobz:

    July 8 (Bloomberg) — Morgan Stanley plans to repackage a downgraded collateralized debt obligation backed by leveraged loans into new securities with AAA ratings in the first transaction of its kind, said two people familiar with the sale.

    Morgan Stanley is selling $87.1 million of securities that it expects to receive [...]



    time to name names and put the blame where it belongs

    On Hank Paulson’s bald head.

    When AIG started to become unwound last fall, who better to know just how much Goldman Sach’s own rape & pillage squad was going to depend on its AIG bad bet insurance than the former CEO, Paulson himself – and who else but the Treasury Secretary would be better positioned to make sure that at least his alma mater [...]



    Adult Supervision is Returning to Wall Street

    So says our Representative Brian Baird and I quote him from a link to a story in my earlier article:

    Baird said the legislation also will prevent executives who presided over the financial crisis from reaping huge salaries and bonuses.

    “Any company that chooses to participate in the program will not be able to offer their departing executives exorbitant severance packages,” [...]



    pissing down on all of us

    On the day that the first of the bailout dollars are to be disbursed, we learn this:

    Oct. 27 (Bloomberg) — Five straight quarters of losses and a 70 percent slide in its stock this year haven’t stopped Merrill Lynch & Co. from allocating about $6.7 billion to pay bonuses.

    Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and Morgan Stanley, both still on track for profitable [...]