The Great American Bubble Machine how Goldman Sachs has engineered every major market manipulation
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2451220/posts
‘The formula is relatively simple: Goldman positions itself in the middle of a speculative bubble, selling investments they know are crap. Then they hoover up vast sums from the middle and lower floors of society with the aid of a crippled and corrupt state that allows it to rewrite the rules in exchange for the relative pennies the bank throws at political patronage. Finally, when it all goes bust, leaving millions of ordinary citizens broke and starving, they begin the entire process over again, riding in to rescue us all by lending us back our own money at interest, selling...
Greece Paid Goldman $300 Million To Help It Hide Its Ballooning Debts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2451481/posts
Simon Johnson: Goldman Is About To Be Blacklisted And Possibly Banned In Europe
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2452042/posts
Simon Johnson: Goldman Is About To Be Blacklisted And Possibly Banned In Europe Joe Weisenthal Feb. 15, 2010, 6:45 AM MIT professor Simon Johnson raises some provocative scenarios in regards to Goldman’s participation in Greece’s scheme to obfuscate its debt levels. In particular, he expects a full audit of the company, and perhaps some kind of ban: If the Federal Reserve were an effective supervisor, it would have the political will sufficient to determine that Goldman Sachs has not been acting in accordance with its banking license. But any meaningful action from this direction seems unlikely. Instead, Goldman will probably...
Rolling Stone? LOL!
In dozens of deals across the Continent, banks provided cash upfront in return for government payments in the future
OMG! Governments borrowed money?
with those liabilities then left off the books.
OMG! Governments lied?