Why Goldman Sachs Is the Greediest and Most Dastardly of the Wall Street Pigs

Goldman holds billions in taxpayer cash, plans for billions in exec bonuses this year, and has powerful friends in Obama's govt. up the wazoo.

Goldman has taken many more billions' worth of low-cost loans from Federal Reserve funds. How many more billions? The Fed and the bank say this is "proprietary" information, not for public disclosure, even though it is public money.

So, while these golden ones are loudly repudiating the $10 billion public subsidy they took from us, they are coyly retaining at least 40 billion of our dollars to stay afloat -- a tidy sum that does not include any ... Full Story »

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Posted by: Posted by Dwight Rousu - May 25, 2009 - 11:33 PM PDT
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Edited by: Dwight Rousu - May 25, 2009 - 11:33 PM PDT

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by Dwight Rousu - May. 25, 2009

Hightower takes a few swings at the privileged welfare queens of Corporate America, living off the huge bonuses us taxpayers are providing them. He follows the money and recounts the smell of the hypocrisy.

the Mafia must actually break the rules, while Wall Street simply hires lobbyists and politicians to write the rules. More »

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