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• Taibbi on Wall Street: One Ponzi Scheme After the Other

  
  The Daily Reckoning — Authority: 616
  Rolling Stone contributing editor Matt Taibbi has gained a reputation for investigating Wall Street’s systemic abuses of power (for examples you can see Daily Reckoning posts on his Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers Autopsy and his description of how the US Economic Team is Packed With Wall Street Insiders ). ...
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• Obama summons bankers to White House for candid talk on failings

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  • Heads of nine leading banks go to Washington for summit • President airs irritation about lack of support for reform • Small business loans, mortgage relief and bonus payouts are among concerns covered in very, very serious discussion The heads of the leading US banks were summoned to the White House ...
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• Mexico Downgrade By S&P From BBB+ To BBB Means Everyone Get On The Bailout Train

  
  zero hedge — Authority: 742
  If you needed a reason to buy todays deja vu listless and volumeless tape, here it is. Mexico cut by S&P from BBB+/A-2 to BBB/A-3. Outlook is "stable"... absent a hyperinflationary collapse. Expect a rebuttal from Goldman Sachs, which has been axed the wrong way for quite a while.
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• Obama to Banks: It’s Payback Time

  
  Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines — Authority: 728
  On Monday, President Obama reminded a group of big banking honchos (or “fat cats,” as he called them on Sunday) assembled at the White House about last year’s bailout and advised them to get busy helping the taxpayers who helped with their recovery. Well, good luck with that one.  —KA BBC: He said US ...
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• Could have fooled me on bankers, Obama

  
  SocraticGadfly — Authority: 144
  Obama claims he wasnt elected to help the "fat cats" but, then, why did he appoint so many to his administration? Fat cat bankers? He becomes more full of crap on some things, and just a more complete sellout on others, by the day. As if giving bankers a "lecture" which they already are calling nothing but PR is ...
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• Is Barney About To Spoil The Banker Party With Proposal To Only Give Retail Banks Discount Window Access?

  
  zero hedge — Authority: 742
  Even with lots of worthless chatter coming out of the White House in the past 24 hours, one solitary fighter for "the common man" emerges in the form of Barney Frank. Whether this is due to the Congressman not getting a thick enough envelope endorsed and signed by the Big 5 banks, or not, we dont know yet. However, ...
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• Danger! Goldman Sachs Floor Plan FOIL Request Denied

  
  Home | The New York Observer — Authority: 762
  In last weeks Observer , I profiled Goldman Sachs soon-to-be-old headquarters at 85 Broad Street. One of the distinctly unpleasant things about reporting the piece was Goldmans unwillingness to cooperate--they wouldnt allow a visit, let alone interviews with employees--though that wasnt that surprising. The New York ...
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• Wall St. Bankers Snub Obama, Duck D.C. Sit-Down Because of Inclement Weather [Goldman Sachs]

  
  Gawker — Authority: 866
  Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein, Citigroup chairman Dick Parsons, and Morgan Stanley CEO John Mack all skipped out on a scheduled dressing-down today from Barack Obama because "inclement weather"...
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• Weather Keeps Some Bankers Away From Obama Talk

  
  DealBook — Authority: 767
  President Obama talked with the executives that he termed "fat cats" on Monday, asking the chiefs of the nations biggest banks to the White House to press them to help speed the economic recovery by providing more loans to small businesses and homeowners.
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• How Satire and Greenwashing Provide us an Easy Ticket Back to our La-Z-Boys

  
  The Blogs at HowStuffWorks — Authority: 524
  My editor, Chanel (who’s cranking out healthy and delicious posts for Fan Stuff now), forwarded me an article in Slate a couple days ago about a study on how our expansive and easy access to plug into the green movement might affect our perception of ourselves. As far as this study suggests, it affects it pretty ...
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• Rich People Things, with Chris Lehmann: The (Partial) Vindication of Matt Taibbi

  
  The Awl — Authority: 778
  When Rolling Stone reporter Matt Taibbi fingered Goldman Sachs as the main culprit behind the housing bubble—and most of the other commodities bubbles of the past seventy-odd years—financial journalists closed ranks to denounce every element of the case he sought to make. The story was “just plain ...
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• Another View: Redefining How to Repay TARP

  
  DealBook — Authority: 767
  The government must reexamine the standards by which banks can repay the billions of dollars they received under the Troubled Asset Relief Program, an architect of the financial bailout writes in Another View.
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• The perils of flying commercial

  
  FT Alphaville — Authority: 627
  Shucks. Alive to the public’s sensitivities, Lloyd Blankfein of Goldman, John Mack of Morgan Stanley and Dick Parsons of Citigroup all choose to take scheduled commercial air services to get to their much-anticipated meeting in Washington with President Obama on Monday. And now they have been delayed by bad ...
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• Goldman, Morgan Stanley And Citi "Demonstratively" Delayed For Obama Meeting Due To Fog

  
  zero hedge — Authority: 742
  Obama is patiently sitting in the conference room playing Brick Breaker on his Bbery. This probably means that private jets are finally back. Also, not a good endorsement of the Acela train. From Dow Jones Executives from Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (GS), Morgan Stanley (MS) and Citigroup Inc. (C) are delayed ...
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• TARP may end soon, but the battle over banker pay goes on

  
  DailyFinance — Authority: 777
  Filed under: Company News , Economy , Investing , Goldman Sachs , American International Group, INC. , Bank of America , Citigroup While Americas biggest banks may still be kicking and screaming about their need to make compensation decisions without interference, the bailouts they took from the government ...
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• Obama to take bankers to task over lending, reforms

  
  Progressive News Daily — Authority: 161
  By Caren Bohan Reuters WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama may have some tough words for executives of Goldman Sachs, Citigroup and other financial firms when he meets with them today. Obama, who has complained about “fat cat bankers” taking big bonuses, will use the meeting to press the firms to ...
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• Market Updates: Goldman Sachs (NYSE: GS), Philip Morris (NYSE: PM), Citigroup (NYSE: C), Exxon Mobil (NYSE: XOM), XTO Energy (NYSE: XTO)

  
  Jutia Group — Authority: 572
  Goldman Sachs (NYSE: GS) upgraded Philip Morris (NYSE: PM) to “conviction” buy from buy this morning, stating earnings growth is under-appreciated by the market and that volumes should return to growth by mid-2010, assisted by a recovery in emerging markets. Goldman also announced that there is the potential ...
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• Pandit’s Citi to return $20 billion in bailout money

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  By Arun KumarWashington, Dec 14 (IANS) Ahead of a meeting with President Barack Obama, Citigroup’s Indian American CEO Vikram Pandit Monday announced that the banking giant has struck a deal with the government to return $20 billion in bailout money to taxpayers.“We are pleased to be able to repay the US ...
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• Goldman’s collateral damage

  
  FT Alphaville — Authority: 627
  Cast your mind back to that SigTarp report, published last month. Readers will recall there’s been a persistent stink over whether the efforts of the Federal Reserve and the US Treasury to prop up AIG had the effect of bailing out Goldman Sachs — its largest trading partner. Goldman Sachs always denied that ...
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• Quote of the day

  
  Corrente — Authority: 620
  Izvestia quotes 60 Minutes: “ I did not run for office to be helping out a bunch of fat cat bankers on Wall Street ,” Mr. Obama said. Well, you did a damned good job anyhow! Give yourself credit!
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