Posts Tagged ‘goldman-sachs’
A few days ago President Obama decided he was going to go after the finance industry. The SEC immediately filed charges agaisnt Goldman Sachs. Obama immediately hit the road attacking Republicans who supposedly went to Wall Street. So, the question I’ve got is if Obama’s going to return the $1,500,000 he’s taken from Goldman Sachs [...]
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Last week President Obama announced he was sick and tired of all the financial abuses going on and was going to do for the finance industry what he’s done to health care. In the same fashion as he did the health care take-over, he didn’t say what he was going to do, but by God, [...]
Tags: Commodity Futures Modernization Act, goldman-sachs, greg zuckerman, hedge fund, naked short selling, obama, paulson, SEC, securities exchange commission, short, short sell, short selling, the greatest trade ever
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Obama laid blame to the entire financial meltdown to the finance industry. He trashed their bonuses as an example of why people don’t like banks right now. He sang a different tune last year. He gladly accepted parts of their bonuses as the economy was melting down. Lehman Brothers $ 344,609 Bear Stearns $ 60,754 [...]
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From Reuters: U.S. Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur came to a House committee hearing on Thursday prepared to ask U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson tough questions about his involvement in the subprime mortgage crisis. Unfortunately, she was questioning the chairman of the Federal Reserve. The Ohio Democrat, at a House of Representatives Budget Committee hearing, said she [...]
Tags: bernanke, goldman-sachs, Idiot of the day, kaptur, lending, marcy, paulson, princeton, subprime
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