by Robert Scheer July 14, 2009 Connect the dots: Goldman Sachs made $3.44 billion in profit this past quarter, while the U.S deficit topped $1 trillion for the first time in the nation’s history and appeared to be headed toward doubling that figure before the budget year is out. Since most of the increase in the federal [...]

by Matt Taibbi July 2, 2009 Matt Taibbi on how Goldman Sachs has engineered every major market manipulation since the Great Depression. In Rolling Stone Issue 1082-83, Matt Taibbi takes on -the Wall Street Bubble Mafia- – investment bank Goldman Sachs. The piece has generated controversy, with Goldman Sachs firing back that Taibbi’s piece is -an hysterical [...]