Goldman

• • The Fed’s “main issue” will be how to avoid spurring inflation while adjusting its $1.725 trillion in asset purchases, a main tool in its effort to sustain economic growth, Bullard said today in the text of slides for a St. Louis speech.
  • Mortgage Applications Drop Even as Rates Fall
    

• • 11/18/2009 Goldman Apologizes for Role in the Crisis:
    
    • Goldman Sachs apologized for the role it played in the financial crisis by taking part in the credit boom which preceded the bursting of the bubble, the Financial Times reported Wednesday.

• • 11/14/2009 Lloyd C. Blankfein, chief executive of the firm, recently defended his firm’s pay and profits in an interview with The Times of London in which he said that Goldman was “doing God’s work.”
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    ... When they have finished getting "filthy rich by 40", as the company saying goes, these alpha dogs don’t put their feet up. They parachute into some of the most senior political posts in the US and beyond, prompting accusations that they "rule the world". Number 85 Broad Street is the home of Goldman Sachs.