Financial Crisis? What Financial Crisis?
Clearly Goldman Sachs had friends in the right places: crony capitalism at its finest:
Staff at Goldman Sachs staff can look forward to the biggest bonus payouts in the firm's 140-year history after a spectacular first half of the year, sparking concern that the big investment banks which survived the credit crunch will derail financial regulation reforms.Goldman has it good in this economy-- making a killing in selling the ever increasing US debt.
A lack of competition and a surge in revenues from trading foreign currency, bonds and fixed-income products has sent profits at Goldman Sachs soaring, according to insiders at the firm. (snip)
Last week, the firm predicted that President Barack Obama's government could issue $3.25tn of debt before September, almost four times last year's sum. Goldman, a prime broker of US government bonds, is expected to make hundreds of millions of dollars in profits from selling and dealing in the bonds.
1 Comments:
I've believed, as have many others, almost from the
beginning, that the so-called
financial crisis was cooked-up
as an excuse for Obama to repay
his major campaign contributors.
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