Posted on 08/26/2009 4:55:11 AM PDT by fiscon1
Lloyd Blankfein, the 54-year-old chairman and CEO of Goldman Sachs, is powerfully perplexed. In the past six months, his investment-banking and securities-trading firm has roared ahead in profitability by taking risks that other firms would not for itself and its clients in an edgy market. It has paid back the billions of dollars, and then some, of taxpayer money the government forced it to take last October; raised billions of dollars in capital from private investors, including $5 billion from Warren Buffett; and urged its cadre of well-paid and high-performing executives to show some restraint on the conspicuous-consumption front.
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the high frequency trading IS stealing. It denies the buyer from buying a stock at a cheaper price and denies the seller from selling it at a higher price.
Who ever decided this was legal/ethical....Vegas?
well the derivative thing should be illegal because its like offbook accounting. Didn’t Enron get in trouble because of it?
AIG did. Using monies from their insurance division to gamble with in Europe.
“Their Russian software programmer is in jail for allegedly stealing GS software that he worked on.
The U.S. Attorney said his possession (or his agents is Russia) was a threat because “the software could be used to manipulate the markets.””
They are front running the market. No one will stop them.
20 Billions in profit. 5 Billions in “bonuses”.
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