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	<title>Comments on: A brief history of Goldman Sachs heads</title>
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		<title>By: Lila Cardiff</title>
		<link>http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2009/11/04/a-brief-history-of-goldman-sachs-heads/comment-page-1/#comment-8689</link>
		<dc:creator>Lila Cardiff</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 22:52:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>When Clinton let Goldman Sachs into Government via Robert Rubin, isn&#039;t that when kids started to have to take a million vaccinations? Aren&#039;t they making Billions as a vaccine  broker? Follow the money.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>When Clinton let Goldman Sachs into Government via Robert Rubin, isn&#8217;t that when kids started to have to take a million vaccinations? Aren&#8217;t they making Billions as a vaccine  broker? Follow the money.</p>
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		<title>By: The Truth</title>
		<link>http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2009/11/04/a-brief-history-of-goldman-sachs-heads/comment-page-1/#comment-8499</link>
		<dc:creator>The Truth</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2009 21:28:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Goldman Sachs only outperforms because they have unfair advantages. They are the equivalent of the poker player who uses marked cards and then brags about his winnings.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Goldman Sachs only outperforms because they have unfair advantages. They are the equivalent of the poker player who uses marked cards and then brags about his winnings.</p>
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		<title>By: 6feetunderhope</title>
		<link>http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2009/11/04/a-brief-history-of-goldman-sachs-heads/comment-page-1/#comment-8496</link>
		<dc:creator>6feetunderhope</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2009 03:33:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Cronk well said, 

Mr. President, let&#039;s sign off all GS to the GOV. payroll...so they will officially represent the gov.

FED is DADDY and \&quot;too big to fail\&quot; are the monster kids that want to be helped out...

GSucks is the preferred child( and rep of the govt.), that\&#039;s why they always win...under bush or Obama, they RULE...so is anybody aware of the THEATRical spectacle of the incumbents( all of them should be ousted with real independents, if they exist).

Go GS , you SUCK... but always win....</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Cronk well said, </p>
<p>Mr. President, let&#8217;s sign off all GS to the GOV. payroll&#8230;so they will officially represent the gov.</p>
<p>FED is DADDY and \&#8221;too big to fail\&#8221; are the monster kids that want to be helped out&#8230;</p>
<p>GSucks is the preferred child( and rep of the govt.), that\&#8217;s why they always win&#8230;under bush or Obama, they RULE&#8230;so is anybody aware of the THEATRical spectacle of the incumbents( all of them should be ousted with real independents, if they exist).</p>
<p>Go GS , you SUCK&#8230; but always win&#8230;.</p>
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		<title>By: whitewolf60</title>
		<link>http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2009/11/04/a-brief-history-of-goldman-sachs-heads/comment-page-1/#comment-8479</link>
		<dc:creator>whitewolf60</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 17:39:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Strike one &quot;regarding&quot; : )</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Strike one &#8220;regarding&#8221; : )</p>
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		<title>By: whitewolf60</title>
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		<dc:creator>whitewolf60</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 17:36:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Some here would insist that capitalism is superior to socialism. Well, it appears that communism has proven itself superior to capitalism. After all, as the U.S. has experienced a steady decline over the past decades, China has seen unbelieveable progress, leaving the communists with the terrible dilemma of coffers too full to close.

But appearances can be deceiving. Goldman Sachs and others have positioned themselves to profit from the wholesale export of American factories, jobs and investment capital to the communist nation. 

As much as some would like, America cannot survive when the majority of it&#039;s workers are engaged in managing data regarding regarding imported goods or modifying blank pieces of paper by causing some ink to be applied to it. Hot air, bullshit and commercial paper DO NOT create tangible wealth.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Some here would insist that capitalism is superior to socialism. Well, it appears that communism has proven itself superior to capitalism. After all, as the U.S. has experienced a steady decline over the past decades, China has seen unbelieveable progress, leaving the communists with the terrible dilemma of coffers too full to close.</p>
<p>But appearances can be deceiving. Goldman Sachs and others have positioned themselves to profit from the wholesale export of American factories, jobs and investment capital to the communist nation. </p>
<p>As much as some would like, America cannot survive when the majority of it&#8217;s workers are engaged in managing data regarding regarding imported goods or modifying blank pieces of paper by causing some ink to be applied to it. Hot air, bullshit and commercial paper DO NOT create tangible wealth.</p>
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		<title>By: williambanzai7</title>
		<link>http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2009/11/04/a-brief-history-of-goldman-sachs-heads/comment-page-1/#comment-8471</link>
		<dc:creator>williambanzai7</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 10:40:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I have been to Tanzania and can confirm that it is a transparent cronyless enterprise compared to Wall Street.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I have been to Tanzania and can confirm that it is a transparent cronyless enterprise compared to Wall Street.</p>
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		<title>By: Michael</title>
		<link>http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2009/11/04/a-brief-history-of-goldman-sachs-heads/comment-page-1/#comment-8469</link>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 08:48:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>This is another anti-finance/anti-Goldman article with no perspective</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This is another anti-finance/anti-Goldman article with no perspective</p>
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		<title>By: jian</title>
		<link>http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2009/11/04/a-brief-history-of-goldman-sachs-heads/comment-page-1/#comment-8422</link>
		<dc:creator>jian</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 06:04:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>So Stephen Friedman resigned, after acting on insider information that he himself help created? That&#039;s it?? That&#039;s not ILLEGAL??? Not worth investigation by ????

I thought I&#039;ve lost my capability of being outraged, but obviously I was wrong. No wonder the Tea Partiers are still going strong! The Obama team really really need to do something about this moral hazard thing. I can&#039;t believe he&#039;s gotten so out of touch with how people on the ground feel so quickly, not even a year yet.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>So Stephen Friedman resigned, after acting on insider information that he himself help created? That&#8217;s it?? That&#8217;s not ILLEGAL??? Not worth investigation by ????</p>
<p>I thought I&#8217;ve lost my capability of being outraged, but obviously I was wrong. No wonder the Tea Partiers are still going strong! The Obama team really really need to do something about this moral hazard thing. I can&#8217;t believe he&#8217;s gotten so out of touch with how people on the ground feel so quickly, not even a year yet.</p>
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		<title>By: kc</title>
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		<dc:creator>kc</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 23:04:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>If nothing else, the past year&#039;s ruckus may prompt the average American to ask himself/herself the following: ...just who are political leaders appointing to positions of power and decision making and what types of conflicts of interest exist? Maybe we will have a generation of Americans that find the term &quot;investment banker&quot; to be a disgusting and deplorable term... and that would be a bad thing? Not to mention the soiled reputation of Ivy leaguers. Even if I could afford it, I would not want my kid to mingle with such elitist, greedy criminals...</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If nothing else, the past year&#8217;s ruckus may prompt the average American to ask himself/herself the following: &#8230;just who are political leaders appointing to positions of power and decision making and what types of conflicts of interest exist? Maybe we will have a generation of Americans that find the term &#8220;investment banker&#8221; to be a disgusting and deplorable term&#8230; and that would be a bad thing? Not to mention the soiled reputation of Ivy leaguers. Even if I could afford it, I would not want my kid to mingle with such elitist, greedy criminals&#8230;</p>
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		<title>By: RayT</title>
		<link>http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2009/11/04/a-brief-history-of-goldman-sachs-heads/comment-page-1/#comment-8406</link>
		<dc:creator>RayT</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 22:43:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>EDIS - The markets do not work.   Just today alone scores of people are being arrested for insider trading etc.  Are we to believe these people are the exception?  

I agree with the one poster on his comments on Ron Paul.  He is the one person who seems to have integrity, who is unwavering in his support of the constitution and opposition to the big corporations.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>EDIS &#8211; The markets do not work.   Just today alone scores of people are being arrested for insider trading etc.  Are we to believe these people are the exception?  </p>
<p>I agree with the one poster on his comments on Ron Paul.  He is the one person who seems to have integrity, who is unwavering in his support of the constitution and opposition to the big corporations.</p>
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		<title>By: Dena</title>
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		<dc:creator>Dena</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 22:37:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;People please, it’s finance. No one deserves a “bullet in the forehead” for profiting from a few credit default swaps, morphing their corporate shell now and then to take advantage of differences in regulatory regimes, etc. etc.&quot;   

It&#039;s not finance and they didn&#039;t &quot;profit.&quot;  It&#039;s living it up on money stolen from taxpayers; it&#039;s cheating; it&#039;s making bets and keeping the money when you win and and forcing innocent people to pick up the tab when you lose. Al Capone was right; Wall Street is run by criminals. Maybe a bullet is too much to ask, but a few criminal prosecutions would be just fine.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;People please, it’s finance. No one deserves a “bullet in the forehead” for profiting from a few credit default swaps, morphing their corporate shell now and then to take advantage of differences in regulatory regimes, etc. etc.&#8221;   </p>
<p>It&#8217;s not finance and they didn&#8217;t &#8220;profit.&#8221;  It&#8217;s living it up on money stolen from taxpayers; it&#8217;s cheating; it&#8217;s making bets and keeping the money when you win and and forcing innocent people to pick up the tab when you lose. Al Capone was right; Wall Street is run by criminals. Maybe a bullet is too much to ask, but a few criminal prosecutions would be just fine.</p>
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		<title>By: EDIS</title>
		<link>http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2009/11/04/a-brief-history-of-goldman-sachs-heads/comment-page-1/#comment-8379</link>
		<dc:creator>EDIS</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 14:54:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I amazed how someone who never met Paulson in person and did not have any depth in financial services can write on a populistic blog such an article! The author has no clue how the markets work, read a book about it and how pretends to have an opinion about this.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I amazed how someone who never met Paulson in person and did not have any depth in financial services can write on a populistic blog such an article! The author has no clue how the markets work, read a book about it and how pretends to have an opinion about this.</p>
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		<title>By: Reminder Bot</title>
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		<dc:creator>Reminder Bot</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 14:20:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>People please, it&#039;s finance. No one deserves a &quot;bullet in the forehead&quot; for profiting from a few credit default swaps, morphing their corporate shell now and then to take advantage of differences in regulatory regimes, etc. etc.  Besides if you chop off the part of America that does nothing but buy cheap imported goods from China, GS could stand alone as a country that at least exports something useful even if it is just services. 

And what is so bad about China buying US treasuries? That&#039;s what happens when Americans don&#039;t save enough money to buy their own government&#039;s bonds - I guess because they are busy buying houses at hugely inflated prices and plastic crap imported from ... China.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>People please, it&#8217;s finance. No one deserves a &#8220;bullet in the forehead&#8221; for profiting from a few credit default swaps, morphing their corporate shell now and then to take advantage of differences in regulatory regimes, etc. etc.  Besides if you chop off the part of America that does nothing but buy cheap imported goods from China, GS could stand alone as a country that at least exports something useful even if it is just services. </p>
<p>And what is so bad about China buying US treasuries? That&#8217;s what happens when Americans don&#8217;t save enough money to buy their own government&#8217;s bonds &#8211; I guess because they are busy buying houses at hugely inflated prices and plastic crap imported from &#8230; China.</p>
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		<title>By: Darrel</title>
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		<dc:creator>Darrel</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 12:24:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>When government and business heavily interact with each other it&#039;s called Fascism.  

American voters should do a better job of identifying Fascism and then vote to stamp Fascism out. 

The next  Presidential election should be interesting.  

By that time, the Democrats will have replaced the management teams with their own people in many of the major corporations in the US as a consequence of bailouts, pay czars and government takeovers in just about every major industry.  

The Republicans will only be able to raise a fraction of the money the Democrats can raise - because anyone who makes decisions regarding political contributions will have been replaced by Democrats on that company&#039;s management team. 

Given that money lubricates the wheels of politics, will we become a one party country?   If we allow one party to direct our major corporations, there will be little left of our democratic system.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>When government and business heavily interact with each other it&#8217;s called Fascism.  </p>
<p>American voters should do a better job of identifying Fascism and then vote to stamp Fascism out. </p>
<p>The next  Presidential election should be interesting.  </p>
<p>By that time, the Democrats will have replaced the management teams with their own people in many of the major corporations in the US as a consequence of bailouts, pay czars and government takeovers in just about every major industry.  </p>
<p>The Republicans will only be able to raise a fraction of the money the Democrats can raise &#8211; because anyone who makes decisions regarding political contributions will have been replaced by Democrats on that company&#8217;s management team. </p>
<p>Given that money lubricates the wheels of politics, will we become a one party country?   If we allow one party to direct our major corporations, there will be little left of our democratic system.</p>
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		<title>By: Don</title>
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		<dc:creator>Don</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 09:34:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Ron Paul is the answer to this problem. New Jersey is the starting place. Show the government they can&#039;t take over any more of this country and take back what they now control.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Ron Paul is the answer to this problem. New Jersey is the starting place. Show the government they can&#8217;t take over any more of this country and take back what they now control.</p>
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