Entries Tagged as 'goldman'

Trading software and China’s gold

September 12th, 2009 14 Comments

Stacy Summary: Good morning y’all.  What’s up in your part of the world? Nobody can run the Lehman derivatives software Tyler Durden on China / gold Utah spends tens of millions to keep Goldman Sachs Two ships near completion of North-east passage No commercial vessel has ever successfully travelled the North-east Passage, a fabled Arctic [...]

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Baltic downgrades and Goldman sued

August 11th, 2009 191 Comments

Stacy Summary:  I recommend you follow all the related stories on ZeroHedge about Sergey’s lawsuit against Goldman.  I think there is the makings of a thriller in this story . . . S&P downgrades Latvia and Estonia Sergey Aleynikov files suit against Goldman

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Borrowing sprees, big winners and bursts of Tasered flames

July 21st, 2009 79 Comments

Stacy Summary: Afternoon headlines.  Will add more as I find them.  (By the way, due to lost emails, we will not be interviewing Mike Morgan until the end of summer; so, instead, we will be interviewing Dmitry Orlov and Dr Housing Bubble.  We have loads of good ones lined up for after summer break, including [...]

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Business as usual in global finance: profiteering, speculating & gambling

July 16th, 2009 27 Comments

Stacy Summary: A week or two ago I posted a piece by Frank Rich regarding the absence of justice.  I think the headlines today show the consequences of zero justice for the financial fraud and the bankers that committed the fraud.  Back to business as usual, as the first article points out, so one can [...]

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Goldman says if you have their trading program, you too could manipulate markets

July 7th, 2009 39 Comments

Stacy Summary:  Actually, it was the US attorney who said it, but as Durbin says “bankers own the place.”  Maybe this ‘theft’ is actually just a shock and awe type sales pitch? Or maybe they want to blame someone else for the next leg down?  We know via ZeroHedge that Goldman was, afterall, 50% of [...]

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UK benefit payout will exceed income tax revenue by over 10%

June 27th, 2009 17 Comments

Stacy Summary:  Bit tip of the hat to @Mike2liverpool. And finally, go join the conversation about yesterday’s OTE at DemocraticUnderground, if you would like to. Oh, and email newsroom@presstv.ir if you want to send some comments to them! Benefit payout will exceed income tax revenue Who bought all the call options on insurance companies just [...]

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The revolution will not be golden

June 21st, 2009 23 Comments

Stacy Summary: So, the entirety of Twitter has been hypnotised by green while Goldman Sachs transfers trillions in toxic waste to the balance sheet of those very same green iconed twitterers calling for others to be free!  And yet they themselves are being imprisoned by intergenerational debt!  While Goldman walks away with the biggest bonuses [...]

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Headline – More calls for racketeering charges against Goldman

April 29th, 2009 18 Comments

Stacy Summary:  Of course, Max has been saying this for more than a year now, and Paul B. Farrell at Dow Jones Marketwatch has caught the Max meme: The beauty of prosecuting a conspiracy under RICO is that the conspiracy is a separate crime. And all members may be guilty of conspiring to commit each [...]

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