Comments on: New Info: Goldman Really Was In Trouble

By: More about “Government Sachs” (they own America; we just live here) « Fabius Maximus

Fri, 31 Jul 2009 12:02:08 +0000

[...] New Info: Goldman Really Was In Trouble, 27 July 2009 — Excerpt: Joe Hagan’s new piece in New York magazine brings out a lot of excellent new information, but the most interesting from my point of view is his insight about the period after the AIG bailout and before the announcement of the new FDIC lending program. It seems things were worse than even I thought at the bank, with then-COO John Winkelreid putting up his Nantucket house for sale in order to raise quick cash and management discussing taking the company private to avoid catastrophe. [...]

By: annlindenmuth

annlindenmuth — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 04:19:22 +0000

Saved from disaster, they turned the ship around and headed right back for the iceberg.

Yes but isn’t this what so many women in abusive relationships do? They stay with what they know, believing that the ‘unknown’ is much more frightening than the disaster that’s staring them in the face. Does this make the ‘powers-that-be’ at Goldman Sachs frightened women afraid to do what is best?

By: Fact-checking « Blog on the Run: Reloaded

Fact-checking « Blog on the Run: Reloaded — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 00:19:04 +0000

[...] amusingly, Matt Taibbi and New York magazine discuss Goldman’s near-death experience this past fall … an experience it appears to have survived only because of an injection of tax money, [...]

By: Daily Digest for July 28th

Daily Digest for July 28th — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 16:49:20 +0000

[...] Shared New Info: Goldman Really Was In Trouble [...]

By: gutterdandy

gutterdandy — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 16:40:56 +0000

I agree, Maher came across as schizo on Goldman during Matt’s interview. The remark about how long the article was came across as juvenile, and Maher seemed unsure if he wanted to agree with Matt or try to bash his work on Goldman, and ended up doing some of both. Maher didn’t seem to have a good grasp of the issue and this was a very weak moment for him,
as instead of letting Matt talk, he insisted on hogging most of the time himself, though he had little of value to say. He ended up looking like an arrogant asshole.

By: Taibbi: new info shows how much trouble Goldman really was in before the government stepped in, and undermines the bank’s public defenses of its reputation « Economics Info

Tue, 28 Jul 2009 13:08:49 +0000

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By: pgogulski

pgogulski — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 13:02:42 +0000

Bill Miller and most of Goldman Sachs executives should be treated the way the Romans treated traitors: Tie them face to face with a recent corpse and throw them all in a ditch. The maggets will do the rest. Start with Greenspan and let the list grow. “It doesn’t really matter who is on the list, none of them would be missed. They all should be on the list.”

By: pgogulski

pgogulski — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 12:49:24 +0000

Matt,

Your RS article on Goldman Sachs turned my head all the way around like in the “exorcist”.
The two years of reading financial news suddently made sense. We are all freaking doomed.

Please get the story out to WSJ, Financial Times, 60 Minutes and the other media whimps.

This is the most important news of the year for us dumb citizens struggling to keep this nation from becoming another Bangladesh.

As for Goldman Sacks, The Romans had a great way to serve justice to traitors: They tied the traitor face to face with a recent corpse, usually another criminal, then threw them both in a ditch and let the maggots do the rest.

By: wendyegg

wendyegg — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 10:13:20 +0000

great

By: robhaerr

robhaerr — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 05:04:59 +0000

I mentioned the same thing in another post, and it’s worth agreeing with you here…Bill Maher totally sucked on the latest interview with Matt. I am waiting to hear Matt discuss “Bubble #6″ and Al Gore’s ties to Goldman Sachs execs with the carbon credit scheme further. All the left-wing shows I have seen Matt on recently (search YouTube) are too chicken-shit to even mention it…disgusting. Geeezus, a simpel question like, “What’s next, Matt?”…is that so hard? Great courage on Matt’s part. Maher’s show is mostly disappointing when it could be very good. Interesting people who try to be too funny, and Maher loving to just interview himself. The show with Ron Howard was good, and his interview with David Walker was good, I will give him those two.