“the first thing you need to know about Goldman Sachs is that it is everywhere. The world’s most powerful investment bank is a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money.” -Matt Taibbi

"Goldman Sachs are scum." --Max Keiser

Pretty Scary: The neo-liberal project takes over the world. This will not be good. I think they need to be reminded "NO JUSTICE, NO PEACE!"

You state that the "last two Treasury secretaries" worked at Goldman Sachs. That is erroneous. Timothy Geithner never worked at Goldman Sachs. You or your researchers should know this. God knows that vampire squid Goldman Sachs is bad enough as it is without making up stuff!

I would disagree that Goldman Sachs rules the world- I think it is Arms Manufacturing Empires that rule.

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Thom you are sounding a lot like the road to roota by Bix Wier. Be carful.

Mark Carney a liberal has done a outstanding job as the governor of the Bank of Canada. Any country that gets him is extremely lucky. Canada's banking system has been ranked number one in the world for years. Investors are coming from all over the world to invest here because of it's stable secure banking system. Mr Carney will be missed.

I don't know much about Goldman Sacks but who should they hire someone that worked at Walmart?

Yes me a conservative said I liked this liberal. Give credit when credit is do.

Hartmann actually said Geitner "worked closely" with Goldman as President of the NY Fed and did not attribute his employment as being with Goldman Sachs.

Corporate Banking in America has had the courage to sack the treasury by using or legislating laws that intentionally syphon public money via bailouts. A relationship of mutual benefit or dependence, that symbiosis is part of the equation that American upper crust just has difficulty with.

It is simple as Thom Hartmann has said America needs to revise the basic standard of living wage. Watching Thom talk about the visual evidence, people killing or injuring each other in mob action to get a deal in retail Friday.

Reflecting on this for the worst moment, those that have enormous wealth could find themselves holding their doors shut at their mansions to prevent being overrun by the desperate people who are way past believing that notion of job creators with money will do anything good. The Robin Hood community is around the corner. With the new leadership, Robin, a yank, guess his name is Mark Carney, blessed by her majesty the Queen. This has to be a brilliant appointment or her majesty is a real confused Lizzie. The question is will Mr. Carney recognize the problem to give balance to the system, because the European and American citizen will deal with the aristocrats with sweeping actions, they should know, the one percenters, they are very replaceable.

Doing some Google research for me is a huge disappointment, finding out U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder and Lanny Breuer, head of the Justice Department's criminal division, were partners for years at a Washington law firm that represented a Who's Who of big banks and other companies at the center of alleged foreclosure fraud, a Reuters inquiry shows.

While Holder and Breuer were partners at Covington, the firm's clients included the four largest U.S. banks - Bank of America, Citigroup, JP Morgan Chase and Wells Fargo & Co - as well as at least one other bank that is among the 10 largest mortgage servicers. WOW. No wonder nothing is done to prosecute banksters. Which means the first order of business is to get a new Attorney General. Obama is too new to be that connected to the old Greenspan model of the past several decades. So if Obama does nothing about this conflict of interest he is bought out too. Hope that is not the case. It’s a tough decision a whole lot of people are going to jail.

GOLDMAN SACHS SHOULD BE DECLARED AN ENEMY OF THE STATE! They've done more damage to the USA and the world than any mid eastern country ever has! This scheme the Big Banks are perpertrating on us cut Americans salaries so we need to borrow from financial institutions to buy anything is killing us. The only winners are the Banksters VIA interest payments from all of us. This is why they have killed the private sector workers with unfair free trade agreements, and have been going after the public sector workers for years now by villianizing them because they want to make a liveable wage. GOLDMAN SACHS are not American. They are greedy bastards who only become Americans when they need our Military to protect their cowardly/Greedy/Scumbag asses and their financial interests

Goldman Sachs was already in control in 2008

How Goldman Sachs took over the world

Whether it's a credit crunch to fix or an Olympics to plan, the list ofGoldman Sachs alumni is sure to have a candidate

By Stephen Foley

Tuesday, 22 July 2008

If there's something weird in the financial world, who you gonna call? Goldman Sachs.

The US government, involved in a firefight against the conflagration in the credit markets, is calling in another crisis-buster from the illustrious investment bank, this time Goldman's most senior banker to finance industry clients, Ken Wilson.

And so with this appointment, the Goldman Sachs diaspora grows a little bit more influential. It is an old-boy network that has created a revolving door between the firm and public office, greased by the mountains of money the company is generating even today, as its peers buckle and fall.

Almost whatever the country, you can find Goldman Sachs veterans in positions of pivotal power.

The 61-year-old Mr Wilson has already proved influential in deals to recapitalise and reorganise some of America's listing banks. At the Treasury he will advise on what the federal government must to do help the process, but he will face scrutiny from those concerned about the tentacles wrapping lightly around government from Wall Street's mightiest bank. For the time being, bailing out Wall Street looks to be the same as bailing out the economy, but if those diverge there could be more questions asked about the influence of Goldman Sachs alumni on public policy.

George Bush picked up the phone this month, partly at the instigation of another Goldman Sachs alumnus, his Treasury secretary, Hank Paulson. Together with Mr Bush's chief of staff, Joshua Bolten, there will be three Goldman Sachs old boys in major positions of influence in the White House – but the US government is hardly alone in finding the bank's executives to be attractive hirees.

They are well-credentialed, partly by design. From its beginning when the German immigrant Marcus Goldman began discounting IOUs among the diamond merchants of New York in the 1870s, Goldman Sachs has always known about the power of the network of influence. Goldman hires former politicians and civil servants, as readily as it supplies them.

And then there is simply the intellectual quality of the employees, many hired as much youngster men via a gruelling interview process, and then forged in the fire of 17-hour work days.

With Goldman Sachs at the heart of Wall Street, and Wall Street at the heart of the US economy, few expects its power to wane. Indeed, The New York Times columnist David Brooks noted that Goldman Sachs employees have given more money to Barack Obama's campaign for president than workers of any other employer in the US. "Over the past few years, people from Goldman Sachs have assumed control over large parts of the federal government," Brooks noted grimly. "Over the next few they might just take over the whole darn thing."

John Thornton

From his post as professor and director of global leadership at Tsinghua University in Beijing, the former Goldman Sachs co-chief operating officer John Thornton has become a highly-influential figure in the developing business and poltical inter-relations between the US and China. He was Goldman's boss in Asia in the mid-Nineties and remains well connected in the East and the West.

Duncan Niederauer

Wall Streeters joked about a Goldman Sachs "takeover" of the New York Stock Exchange. Hank Paulson, the Goldman boss on the NYSE board, moved to oust the chairman, Dick Grasso, and recommended the then chief operating officer of Goldman, John Thain, as Mr Grasso's replacement. Mr Thain modernised the exchange as demanded by Goldman, and Mr Thain's old Goldman deputy, Duncan Niederauer, is in charge.

Jon Corzine

The former co-chief executive of Goldman went into full-time politics in 1999, having lost the internal power struggle that preceded the company's stock-market flotation in 1999. He has been governor of New Jersey since 2006, having spent the previous six years in the US Senate. His 2000 Senate election campaign was then the most expensive ever in the US, and Corzine spent $62m of his own money.

Joshua Bolten

For five years until 1999, Mr Bolten served as director of legal affairs for Goldman based in London, effectively making him the bank's chief lobbyist to the EU. The Republican lawyer aided George Bush's 2000 election campaign, helped co-ordinate policy in the White House and has been the President's chief of staff since 2006.

Paul Deighton

The man heading London's planning for the 2012 Olympic Games, Paul Deighton amassed a fortune estimated at over £100m during his two decades at Goldman Sachs, where he had been one of its most powerful investment bankers.

Robert Rubin

A US Treasury secretary under Bill Clinton, Mr Rubin could once again emerge as a powerful figure in Washington if Barack Obama wins the presidency, since he has maintained his influence on Democrat politics. Mr Rubin reached the second-highest rung at Goldman, becoming co-chief operating officer before joining the US government in 1993.

Gavyn Davies

The ex-chairman of the BBC still has the ear of Gordon Brown, to whom he has been a good friend and informal adviser. He is married to the Prime Minister's aide Sue Nye. Mr Davies spent 15 years as an economist at Goldman. He was commissioned to report on the future funding of the BBC by Mr Brown in 1999. Two years later, he was poached to chair it.

Jim Cramer

This former Goldman trader is, without question, the most influential stock pundit in the US. Hectoring and shouting his investment advice nightly on his CNBC show, Mad Money, he routinely moves share prices. His primal scream against the Federal Reserve ("They know nothing") was a YouTube sensation last year, as the central bank refused to lower interest rates to ease the pain of the credit crisis on Wall Street.

Robert Zoellick

Goldman provided a lucrative home to Robert Zoellick, the neo-conservative Republican, between the time he quit as Condoleezza Rice's deputy at the State Department in 2006 (having not secured the job he coveted as Treasury Secretary, when it went to Hank Paulson) and his appointment last year as head of the World Bank. At Goldman he had acted as head of international affairs, a kind of global ambassador and networker-in-chief.

Mario Draghi

The head of the Italian central bank is another example of the revolving door between Goldman and public service. Mr Draghi had been an academic economist, an executive at the World Bank and a director-general of the Italian treasury before joining Goldman as a partner in 2002. He is becoming a significant figure in the response to the credit crisis, chairing the financial stability forum of central banks, finance ministries and regulators.

Malcolm Turnbull

Treasurer for the opposition Liberal Party, Mr Turnbull is one of the fastest-rising politicians in Australia. He was the aggressive advocate who took on and beat the British Government in the Spycatcher trial of the former MI5 agent Peter Walker, but he then pursued a career in business and ran Goldman Australia from 1997 to 2001, before jumping in to politics to serve as environment minister under John Howard.

Hank Paulson

Cometh the hour, cometh the man. President George Bush must be delighted he lured a reluctant Hank Paulson away from his $38m-a-year job as Goldman Sachs chief executive in 2006, just in time to deal with the Wall Street crisis that has engulfed the entire US economy. The bird-watching enthusiast had been a surprising choice as Treasury secretary, since his environmentalism was at odds with much of Bush's policy.

Now I know why I vote my proxies like I do. I read the candidate board member's history, and if he ever worked for a financial firm, I vote against him. I realize my measly 100 shares have no influence, but it feels good.

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Goldman Sachs was a top contributor to Obama and it was pennies on the dollar for them. The U.S. Government all but works for Goldman Sachs and it's the pretty much the same for the British. Don't ever think our governments haven't been bought and paid for.

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