Category Archives: Goldman Sachs

GOP mega-donors look toward 2012

POLITICO By MAGGIE HABERMAN & KENNETH P. VOGEL  As the 2010 campaign draws to its raucous close, the Republican Party’s biggest donors are slowly beginning to choose sides, with some still looking for a strong alternative to a populist conservative movement that makes them uneasy. The big New York, Texas, California and Florida donors who [...]

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The Real Party of Wall Street

Photo credit: media.photobucket.com By: Michael G. Franc NRO Online The Democrats’ populist assault on all things Wall Street, we are told, helps them politically regardless of the legislative outcome. Democrats, NBC Nightly News reported, “actually scheduled [Monday’s] vote knowing they would lose and they did because they see it as a political win — better [...]

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The “Party of No” Blocks Wall St. Power Grab for 3rd Time

By Rex Nutting WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) — Efforts by Democrats to reform how the nation’s financial companies are regulated received a third consecutive setback Wednesday after Republicans voted unanimously against allowing debate on the banking bill by the full Senate. The effort to begin debate failed by a vote of 56-42. Democratic Sen. Ben Nelson of [...]

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Political Cartoons: Michael Ramirez

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No one marching for the banks

Two days before President Barack Obama called on Wall Street titans to ask their lobbyists to stand down in the fight over financial regulation reforms, JP Morgan mobilized its entire New York workforce to join the battle. On Tuesday, it dispatched an e-mail on the reform package the Senate is considering to 30,000 employees, noting [...]

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Obama should return Wall Street’s money

Here’s the Washington Examiner echoing my call for Obama to return Wall Street’s “dirty” money. He talks the talk but he doesn’t walk the walk. ~~John Cronin~~ President Obama took his case for vastly increasing federal power over financial institutions to Wall Street yesterday, but he forgot something while packing for the trip. He should [...]

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