Tag Archives: Goldman Sachs

GOP mega-donors look toward 2012

Posted on October 23rd, 2010

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

Posted on July 10th, 2010

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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Political Cartoons: Michael Ramirez

Posted on April 27th, 2010

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Obama should return Wall Street’s money

Posted on April 23rd, 2010

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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Obama Decries Wall St. “Greed,” But Will Keep Goldman’s $Million Campaign Stash

Posted on April 22nd, 2010

The Wall Street Journal has confirmed reports that surfaced yesterday that committed redistributionist (of other people’s money) Barack Obama will NOT be redistributing Goldman Sach’scampaign contribution back to the firm’s employees. I am shocked, shocked, I tell you! Yes, my friends, the Democratic Party and it’s esteemed leader, friend and protector of the “little guy,”  [...]

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GOP seeks SEC records on Goldman

Posted on April 21st, 2010

Rep. Darrell Issa, the top Republican on the House Oversight committee, is demanding a slew of documents from the Securities and Exchange Commission, asserting that the timing of civil charges against Goldman Sachs raises “serious questions about the commission’s independence and impartiality.” Issa’s letter, addressed to SEC Chairwoman Mary Schapiro and signed by eight other [...]

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Dodd’s Job-Killer: Slapping Main St., Not Wall St.

Posted on April 20th, 2010

 By MARK A. CALABRIA The financial-regulatory bill now before Congress is a fraud: Under cover of “reforming” Wall Street, it would inflict tremendous costs on Main Street. All the fresh publicity about alleged dirty doings by Goldman Sachs, etc., is beside the point: Senate Banking Committee Chairman Christopher Dodd (D-Conn.) has produced a bill that [...]

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Whitman, Wall Street and Wishful Thinking

Posted on April 19th, 2010

An article in this morning’s Wall Street Journal entitled “California Race Gets a Wrinkle” talks about the Goldman Sachs connection to both of the highest profile candidates in one of the highest profile races in the country. Meg Whitman served on Goldman’s board before she resigned seven years ago. Her campaign has disclosed that Ms. [...]

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Now that Obama has Trashed the Health Care Industry, Is Wall Street Next?

Posted on April 14th, 2010

For you non-technical market observers, this is what the Dow Jones Industrial Averages look like in chart form.  This is the type of price action that stock traders and investors dream about. Over the course of the last couple of weeks we have been hearing more and more chatter among the same people who have just [...]

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Obama nominee, under fire, withdraws for ‘personal reasons’

Posted on December 31st, 2009

nypost.com A controversial Obama administration nominee has withdrawn his candidacy for “personal reasons,” White House spokesman Tommy Vietor confirmed. Jide Zeitlin, a former Goldman Sachs banker who was to be America’s financial point man at the United Nations, faced character questions amid allegations of identity fraud and improper business practices. One of his India-based firms [...]

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