The tag 'Goldman Sachs' is associated with 8 posts.

FTR #741 Bail, Bail, the Gang’s All Here

Posted by Dave Emory ⋅ May 7, 2011 ⋅ 12 comments

For­eign Banks bor­rowed exten­sively from Fed dur­ing the melt­down; aid to Dexia and Depfa needed to avoid muni­pal fis­cal armaged­don, stem­ming par­tially from Dexia’s appar­ent crim­i­nal activity.

Does Goldman Sachs Chief Lloyd Blankfein Enjoy Connections to the Intelligence Community?

Posted by Dave Emory ⋅ April 22, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

COMMENT: In recent years there has [appro­pri­ately] been much dis­cus­sion of Gold­man Sachs. CEO Llolyd Blank­fein has an inter­est­ing pro­fes­sional back­ground, which might indi­cate oper­a­tional con­nec­tions to the intel­li­gence com­mu­nity.
After a rise that could truly be called a clas­sic Amer­i­can “up-by-the-bootstraps” ascent, Blank­fein worked for years as a tax lawyer for Dono­van Leisure, the [...]

BOHICA [Bend Over, Here It Comes Again], pt. 3: Major Red Ink on European Banks’ Books

Posted by Dave Emory ⋅ June 11, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

Com­ment: More sto­ries high­light just how pre­car­i­ous the eurozone’s finances are right now.  There are $2.6 tril­lion in loans to Por­tu­gal, Ire­land, Italy, Greece, and Spain (the P.I.I.G.S),  that are held by Europe’s banks. No one knows who is hold­ing how much of those loans.  As a result, ter­ror grows in the Euro­pean finan­cial com­mu­nity about the [...]

BOHICA, Pt. II: A VERY Scary Story

Posted by Dave Emory ⋅ May 26, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

Com­ment: BOHICA is a mil­i­tary slang acronym for “Bend Over, Here It Comes Again!” A very dis­turb­ing story regard­ing the euro zone cri­sis was fea­tured in The Wall Street Jour­nal. It looks like the short-term lend­ing to a lot of Euro­pean banks is dry­ing up...this is the kiss of death to finan­cial insti­tu­tions in today’s [...]

California GOP Gubernatorial Candidate Meg Whitman Tied to Goldman Sachs

Posted by Dave Emory ⋅ April 19, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

Com­ment: Now that the SEC has seen fit to take Gold­man Sachs to the legal wood­shed for its actions in the sub­prime mess, it is worth not­ing that big-spending GOP can­di­date for Gov­er­nor of Cal­i­for­nia Meg Whit­man is deeply tied to these SOB’s.
“Whitman’s Ties to Finan­cial Giant Gold­man Sachs” by Lance Williams and Carla Mar­in­ucci; San [...]

Update on the Meltdown: BOHICA

Posted by Dave Emory ⋅ March 28, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

Com­ment: There is a mil­i­tary slang acronym “BOHICA,” which stands for “Bend Over, Here It Comes Again.”
“Econ­o­mists: Another Finan­cial Cri­sis on the Way” by Matthew Jaffe; ABC News; 3/2/2010.
Even as many Amer­i­cans still strug­gle to recover from the country’s worst eco­nomic down­turn since the Great Depres­sion, another cri­sis – one that will be even worse than [...]

FTR #670 Update on the Meltdown, Part 3: Top Banana Republic

Posted by Dave Emory ⋅ May 19, 2009 ⋅ 2 comments

U.S. is beset by the same struc­tural eco­nomic and polit­i­cal prob­lems as Emerg­ing Mar­ket coun­tries; Will the “Top Banana Repub­lic” pull through? Or will we bring the rest of the world down?

FTR #651 The Engineer Has Wrecked The Train

Posted by Dave Emory ⋅ November 11, 2008 ⋅ One comment

Iden­ti­fy­ing the causes of the cur­rent finan­cial dis­as­ter is as impor­tant as pur­su­ing the male­fac­tors behind the deci­sive actions.

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ESSENTIAL BACKGROUND

Martin BormannMartin Borman, Nazi in Exile by Paul Manning. German corporate capital flight program in the waning years of WWII.
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