Money and Finance
- Buffett, Blankfein, Bloomberg, Snyder: Small Businesses
Link to video: Buffett, Blankfein, Bloomberg, Snyder: Small Businesses Sept. 18 (Bloomberg) – Warren Buffett, the billionaire chairman of Berkshire Hathaway Inc., Lloyd Blankfein, chief executive officer of Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Michael Bloomberg,...
- Buffett Feasts On Goldman Scraps
If there is one skill Goldman Sachs Group Inc. traders pride themselves on, it is the art of buying low and selling high. But last year, anticipating new regulatory restrictions on proprietary trading and seeking to reduce the bank's exposure to risky...
- Financiers And Sex Trafficking – By Nicholas D. Kristof
THE biggest forum for sex trafficking of under-age girls in the United States appears to be a Web site called Backpage.com. This emporium for girls and women — some under age or forced into prostitution — is in turn owned by an opaque private company...
- Why I Am Leaving Goldman Sachs - By Greg Smith
Interesting to keep Mr. Buffett’s comment in mind from a couple of weeks ago about Lloyd Blankfein, when he said “I'm unequivocal in my praise of Lloyd. I think he did a terrific job in bringing the company through a crisis. I — he's a fine...
- Wsj: Goldman Takes A Dark View
Thanks to Will for passing this along. A top Goldman Sachs Group Inc. strategist has provided the firm's hedge-fund clients with a particularly gloomy economic outlook and suggestions for how these traders can take advantage of the financial crisis...
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Michael Lewis: Did Goldman Sachs Overstep in Criminally Charging Its Ex-Programmer?
A month after ace programmer Sergey Aleynikov left Goldman Sachs, he was arrested. Exactly what he’d done neither the F.B.I., which interrogated him, nor the jury, which convicted him a year later, seemed to understand. But Goldman had accused him of stealing computer code, and the 41-year-old father of three was sentenced to eight years in federal prison. Investigating Aleynikov’s case, Michael Lewis holds a second trial.
- Buffett, Blankfein, Bloomberg, Snyder: Small Businesses
Link to video: Buffett, Blankfein, Bloomberg, Snyder: Small Businesses Sept. 18 (Bloomberg) – Warren Buffett, the billionaire chairman of Berkshire Hathaway Inc., Lloyd Blankfein, chief executive officer of Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Michael Bloomberg,...
- Buffett Feasts On Goldman Scraps
If there is one skill Goldman Sachs Group Inc. traders pride themselves on, it is the art of buying low and selling high. But last year, anticipating new regulatory restrictions on proprietary trading and seeking to reduce the bank's exposure to risky...
- Financiers And Sex Trafficking – By Nicholas D. Kristof
THE biggest forum for sex trafficking of under-age girls in the United States appears to be a Web site called Backpage.com. This emporium for girls and women — some under age or forced into prostitution — is in turn owned by an opaque private company...
- Why I Am Leaving Goldman Sachs - By Greg Smith
Interesting to keep Mr. Buffett’s comment in mind from a couple of weeks ago about Lloyd Blankfein, when he said “I'm unequivocal in my praise of Lloyd. I think he did a terrific job in bringing the company through a crisis. I — he's a fine...
- Wsj: Goldman Takes A Dark View
Thanks to Will for passing this along. A top Goldman Sachs Group Inc. strategist has provided the firm's hedge-fund clients with a particularly gloomy economic outlook and suggestions for how these traders can take advantage of the financial crisis...