More Headaches For The Goldman PR Department: Here Comes The (Soon To Be) Viral Goldman Sucks Video

Yesterday we had the Cleveland Fed posting videos complete with the Ben Bernanke doodles of 3 year olds explaining how the Fed should (but does not) work. Today, we have a much more entertaining (and thus sure to go viral) 10 minute long, easily digestable summary of the firm that took the face of humanity, [...]

How Goldman Prevented Today’s Market Rout And Made A Quick $3 Million In The Process

In our first of many “Trench Warfare” segments, we share with our readers the perspectives of various floor and desk traders and analysts, in this case CBOT floor trader F.S., whose valuable perspective sheds some much needed light on today’s odd market behavior, and on just who was responsible, and profited from it. I thought [...]

The Goldman VaR Exemption Question Escalates

It seems only yesterday that Zero Hedge had some questions in regard to Goldman’s VaR Fed exemption. No response was received from 85 Broad. Today it appears several Congressmen, lead by Alan Grayson, are willing to drive a sharp stick pretty deep into the hornets’ nest, by sending a letter directly to Wall Street Don [...]

The Great American Bubble Machine

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 compilation of conspiracy theories” and a spokesman adding, “We reject the assertion that we are inflators of bubbles and profiteers [...]

Goldman Sachs Responds To Zero Hedge

It seems quite a few individuals noticed our post attempting to justify some very peculiar language in not just a certain Goldman Sachs Internet disclaimer, but also the strange wording prominently featured in critical GS-client agreements. One happened to be Goldman Sachs itself. We take this opportunity to present the response by Goldman Sachs’ spokesman [...]

Goldman Sachs Principal Transactions Update: Back With A Vengeance

Just released NYSE data indicate a 50% ramp up by Goldman’s principal Program Trading unit. Whereas the prior week saw Goldman trading only 631 million principal shares on the NYSE, the most recent data indicate a massive rise to 977.8 million. Also notable is Credit Suisse’s doubling in principal program trades to 586 million from [...]

Goldman Sachs: "Engineering Every Major Market Manipulation Since The Great Depression"

With a subtitle like “From tech stocks to high gas prices, Goldman Sachs has engineered every major market manipulation since the Great Depression – and they’re about to do it again” run, don’t walk, to your nearest kiosk and buy Matt Taibbi’s latest piece in Rolling Stone magazine. One of the best comprehensive profiles of [...]

Goldman Keeps On Cheering CBL… For Now

Everyone’s favorite Goldman REIT analyst is still not downgrading CBL to a Conviction List Sell. In fact, Habermann is doing all he can to salvage whatever he can. That being said, we give this stock at most 3-4 weeks before it gets whacked if not to a Sell to at least a “Conviction List” Hold. [...]

I Would Like To Thank The Academy, Goldman Sachs, And God (Jeff Immelt)…

One would be tempted to link up to Jimmy’s famous rant against Bernanke from two years ago. Oh what the heck… here it is. Read more….

Snapshot Of The GS Conviction List

Zero Hedge had some fun recently analyzing the extensive thought process that goes into the decision making that leads to the addition (and, more relevantly, subtraction) of any given stock from the Goldman Sachs conviction list. One could say a case study of exhaustive insight and careful risk management it was not. After a flurry [...]

Goldman Sachs Analyzes Its Risk Exposure

Until yesterday, the only real risk at the 5th branch of government (4th is the PIMCO/BlackRock two headed hydra) was making sure that 2009 is the year of the biggest bonuses on record (amusingly, now that Cerberus has all but followed Chrysler to its ignominious end (oddly missing from the company’s industry expertise page – [...]

Goldman Sachs Principal Transactions Update: Nation Of Domination

According to NYSE data released yesterday, things are back to normal in the shady world of NYSE program trading, where after a suspicious lull in the prior week, Goldman Sachs’ SLP function (or any other 3 letter acronym of your choosing) has cranked up yet again. Now that the SLP extension has been granted (under [...]

Goldman Sachs Principal Transactions Update: 25% Drop

According to the most recent data out of the NYSE, Goldman’s principal program trading dropped an astonishing 25%, hitting a many week low absolute number. Not only that, but the portion of Goldman’s principal PT trades as a percentage of total, and as a multiple of agency and customer facilitation also dropped substantially. Now, if [...]