goldman sachs
The mentally ill dingbats at Fox and Friends devoted part of their program to calling kindly mom lady protester Stacy Hessler “disgusting filth” because she was so moved by the Occupy Wall Street protests that she left her teenage kids at home with their dad in Florida to participate at Zuccotti Park. B-b-but a woman’s [...]
Great news, everybody: After deliberately failing to help millions of American families stuck in vulture mortgages, the U.S. government is now giving those foreclosed homes to Wall Street for pennies on the dollar so that Wall Street can then rent the now-vacant foreclosures back to the same people pushed out during the Wall Street-caused housing [...]
The weird mutants staffing Darrell Issa’s House Oversight Committee are for once being documented mutants: Issa staffer Peter Haller, who mostly scribbles furious letters to government regulators demanding they quit harassing Goldman Sachs with horrible strict rules like, “at least use condoms when you’re screwing everyone,” was also Peter Simonyi who dealt with government regulators as [...]
Were you all bummed out because the Goldman Sachs investigation was just this wimpy little civil suit from a bunch of bureaucrat nobodies at the SEC, whose only enforcement power is imposing tiny fines on impossibly rich people? Fear not! Now federal prosecutors are sniffing around this slimy cadre of villains. Soon there will be [...]
This article about Goldman Sachs’ legal/lobbying/PR team is completely terrifying. The team includes Obama’s ex-White House counsel Greg Craig, as you know, but also Ken Duberstein, Harold Ford Senior, former SEC commissioner/Shelby aide Richard Roberts, PR sleaze Mark “Master of Disaster” Fabiani, Dick Gephardt, and “a veteran former regulatory reporter for the New York Times.” [...]
Much like elderly penguin Carl Levin, Claire McCaskill was forced to utter the acceptable adult word “shitty” today while discussing internal Goldman Sachs e-mails that said “shitty.” So here she is apologizing to her mother and the state of Missouri, on the Twitter. But she owes an apology to Goldman Sachs most of all, as [...]
Have you been watching the important Goldman Sachs hearing in John McCain’s Senate all day? Oh shutup, you clearly do not have a job. Here’s the “most bloggable” clip thus far, of Carl Levin, who is old and great, maybe.
Ezra Klein interviews a friend who went to fancy Harvard and then spent some time making barrels of money at Goldman Sachs. Watch as Ezra gets the inside scoop with hard-hitting questions like, “You went to Harvard. Then what happened?” [Ezra Klein] David Denby (lookalike?) is upset with Matt Yglesias and all his snarky partisan [...]
Orrin Hatch, much like the single richest member of Congress, Rep. Darrell Issa, is concerned about this so-called “legal law suit of law” against the great company Goldman Sachs. Isn’t it HMM SUSPICIOUS that the SEC filed this suit against a financial company’s terrible business practices just as the Senate is considering major legislation about [...]
Terrifying Chicago thug and life-saving superhero Rahm Emanuel made it official last night: If Richard Daley doesn’t run again, Rahm wants to be Mayor of Chicago. “That’s always been an aspiration of mine,” Rahm told Charlie Rose during a secret televised conversation, “even when I was in the House of Representatives.” Now who will Eric [...]
Washington! “Goldman Sachs is launching an aggressive response to its political and legal challenges with an unlikely ally at its side — President Barack Obama’s former White House counsel, Gregory Craig. The beleaguered Wall Street bank hired Craig — now in private practice at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom — in recent weeks to [...]
