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Search results for "Goldman Sachs" ...
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Education for Sale
Education Management Corp. was already a swiftly growing player in the lucrative world of for-profit higher education, with annual revenues topping $1 billion, but it had its sights set on industry domination. So, five years ago, the Pittsburgh company's executives agreed to sell its portfolio of more than 70 colleges to a trio of investment partnerships for $3.4 billion, securing the needed capital for an aggressive national expansion.
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The Fed's Secret Liquidity Lifeline
The stories reveal the first details of the Federal Reserve's unprecedented bailout of hundreds of banks and other companies during the financial crisis.
Tags: Federal Reserve; Goldman Sachs; bailout; banks
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All the Devils are Here: The Hidden Story of the Financial Crisis
This book offers an attempt to exlore all the various forces -- on Main Street, Washington and Wall St. -- that lead to the financial crisis of 2008. They explored the extent that subprime loans fed the crisis; how Wall Street dictated the degraded lending terms; and the efforts of federal regulators to thwart predatory lending at the state and local levels.
Tags: financial crisis; subprime lending; housing crisis; foreclosure; predatory lending; Wall Street; Contrywide; Ameriquest; Goldman Sachs; Merrill Lynch; AIG;
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"Too Big To Fail: How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System - and Themselves"
Andrew Ross Sorkin takes readers to the middle of the largest financial crisis to hit the states since the Great Depression. Through hours of interviews and "documentary evidence," Sorkin reveals the "behind-the-scenes, moment-by-moment" steps and decisions on Wall Street that "sowed the seeds" of its slow, eventual demise.
Tags: Wall Street; Washington D.C.; Lehman Brothers; AIG; Merrill Lynch; Henry Paulson; JPMorganChase; Goldman Sachs; Fannie Mae; Freddie Mac
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The Goldman Sachs Trading Code Theft Case
A former Goldman Sachs employee was arrested and charged with taking codes from the company's automated, high-frequency trading system. The find highlighted the possibility that criminals could trigger a systemic meltdown of the market if automated trading were to go rogue.
Tags: Goldman Sachs; codes; trading; market; employee; arrested; July 4th; Matthew Goldstein; computer;
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Goldman Sachs: Low Road to High Finance
After the collapse of the financial market in the United States, there were many key components which played a large role in the devastation to many Americans. These key components mainly focus on major financial institutions, which played a large role in manipulating the mortgage and mortgage security markets. Furthermore, the institutions that should be keeping them honest, failed to do so.
Tags: Nation's financial sector; financial institutions; mortgage; market; American International Group (AIG); Federal Reserve Bank of New York; Moody's; Securities and Exchange Commission; Citigroup, Inc.; Bank of America Corp.
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Who's Behind the Financial Meltdown?
"Who's Behind the Financial Meltdown" explores lending practices of big banks leading up to the near collapse of the financial sector in 2007. Findings suggest large banks such as Lehman Brothers, Merrill Lynch, Citigroup and Goldman Sachs bankrolled about 72 percent of the industry's risky subprime lending while executives reaped record bonuses and collected billions in federal bailout money.
Tags: banking; financial; meltdown; collapse; bailout; bonuses; subprime; lending; loans; banks;
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Power Trips
Medill students partnered with American Public Media and the Center for Public Integrity to examine travel taken by members of Congress and their staffers paid for with private dollars, largely by lobbyists. They expanded the publicly available database to include travel by staffers and travel though June 30, 2006. Reporters from Medill NewsService wrote over 30 stories based on the data. All the stories are included here.
Tags: ethics; congressional staffers; lobbyists; Alabama; California-Imperial Valley; Colorado; Connecticut; Florida; Indiana; Iowa; Massachusetts; Missouri; Mississippi; North Carolina; Oregon; Pennsylvania; Platts, South Carolina; Barney Frank; Washington; IRE Student Entry
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Wall St.'s Soldier of Fortune
This story examines the fall from grace of Wall Street trader Kevin Ingram, who became implicated in a scheme involving allegations of money laundering and international arms dealing. There is concern by the government that some of the arms may have been destined for the Taliban.
Tags: Kevin Ingram; arms trade; weapons; Jon Corzine; Robert Rubin; Mohson; Malik; Taliban; Bin Laden; Deutsche Bank; Randy Glass; Goldman Sachs; TruMarkets; Jesse Jackson
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Battle Acroos
New Jersey Monthly sheds light on the never ending competition between New Jersey and New York in attracting each other's businesses and commercial control over Hudson River. "It seems that whenever a major company threatens to pack its bags, politicians in either state will trip over themselves to find the resources to persuade it to stay," the magazine reports. The story exemplifies the battle for attracting and holding corporate players with a $1.1 billion bond issue, approved by New York governor George Pataki, designed to keep the News York Stock Exchange in lower Manhattan. The article finds that "this economic tug-of-war diminishes both states."
Tags: politicians; Port Authority of New Jersey and New York; Jersey City; public subsidies; corporations; tax abatements; industrial development bonds; Time Warner; Mail.com; America Online; Lockheed Martin; Goldman Sachs; Chase Manhattan