Showing posts with label Goldman Sachs. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Goldman Sachs. Show all posts
Tuesday, April 15, 2025

Bank of America overall profits up 11%, stock trading revenue up 17%

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Bank of America on Tuesday posted first-quarter results that topped analysts’ expectations for profit and revenue on stronger-than-expected...
Monday, April 14, 2025

Trump tariff chaos is literally equity traders' gold

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   On again, off again, on again tariffs from The Puppet Master have enriched stock traders Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan Chase, and Morgan Stanl...
Thursday, December 12, 2024

Now that Democrats have lost everything, The New York Times has nothing to lose by telling the truth about their illegal immigration tsunami under Joe Biden

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   The numbers in the Times analysis include both legal and illegal immigration. About 60 percent of immigrants who have entered the count...
Sunday, September 9, 2018

T. A. Frank tries to dial down the hysteria a notch or two: This still isn’t the behavior of a dictator, the press is doing just fine

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T. A. Frank for Vanity Fair, here : Finally, this still isn’t the behavior of a dictator. As much as Trump blusters about libel laws a...
Monday, August 6, 2018

Frank Rich slams Gary Cohn in NY Mag, Cohn fires back in Bloomberg

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Frank Rich on the 5th, here : The Wall Street bandits escaped punishment, as did most of the banking houses where they thrived. Everyo...
Thursday, June 7, 2018

Jan Hatzius is hysterical: Unemployment rate set to move into overheating territory

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Quoted here : "We are still creating a lot more jobs than the long-term trend which we would put at 100,000 (each month), so when...
Thursday, February 22, 2018

Surprise, the tax cuts are showing up in, not your wallet, but enormous stock buy-backs by large corporations, which explains the rising stock market

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In other words, so-called sideline cash coming into the market is really nothing more than taxcut cash reallocated to stock buy-backs by c...
Thursday, March 10, 2016

Conservatives don't realize how much Ted Cruz owes to George W. Bush because talk radio never mentions it

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How is it that Rush Limbaugh's closest thing to Reagan is a Bushie, hm? Reported here : The Bush-Cruz connection is clear. Ted...
Thursday, March 20, 2014

All But One Big Bank Would Fail Real Stress Tests, Which Means In An Actual Crisis It's 2008 All Over Again

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So says Bloomberg View  here , naming Wells Fargo as the only one which would pass: The results aren’t pretty. Using a start date of Sept. 3...
Friday, May 17, 2013

Whoops! The 13th Bank Failure Of 2013 Was On Tuesday The 14th!

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Well now, that's unusual. The 13th bank failure of 2013 occurred this past Tuesday, May 14th. Usually the FDIC waits until Friday late t...
Friday, March 1, 2013

I Know! Let's Get The Sequestration Cuts From The Banks!

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In an editorial on February 20th, here  (which has caused quite the hubbub), Bloomberg.com maintained that most big banks are not profitable...

Warren Buffett, Amoral Crony Capitalist, Bought An Indulgence From The Left

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So says Daniel Mitchell of The Cato Institute, here : "If you’re an amoral person with political connections, it’s possible to make a l...
Monday, August 27, 2012

Romney Is A Total Hypocrite On Hard-Money: To Him TARP Preserved The Dollar's Value!

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Hard-money conservatives like Larry Kudlow who think Gov. Mitt Romney is actually serious about maintaining the value of the dollar ought to...
Friday, August 10, 2012

Romney Doesn't Oppose Obama's Financier Fascism, He's Part Of It

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"[D]espite taking office in the midst of a massive financial meltdown, Obama’s administration has not prosecuted a single heavy-hitter ...
Tuesday, December 6, 2011

The Next Bailout: Think Fed Leverage at 53:1 is Bad? Try the FHA at 417:1.

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So says Fortune ( link ), or else it's curtains for Ginnie Mae: The second catalyst [for government support of housing to decline] is th...
Friday, July 22, 2011

The Fed Still Refuses to Document for the GAO the Exigent Circumstances Justifying Loans to Non-Primary Dealers

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See the story here . We're talkin' affiliates of Merrill Lynch, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and Citigroup. None dare call it fasci...
Thursday, February 3, 2011

Suez Canal Moves 2.5 Percent of Global Oil Production

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So says an article at Bloomberg.com here : About 2.5 percent of global oil production moves through Egypt via the Suez Canal and the adjacen...
Thursday, December 2, 2010

Here's Why Your Government Stalled on the FOIA for Two Years

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Because the American taxpayer has bailed out the whole world, that's why. We're now the biggest suckers in history. And the followin...
Friday, October 22, 2010

Corporate Cash Really Isn't

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Mish has an interesting post which contrasts "corporate cash" with corporate debt. The upshot is the cash is concentrated in just ...
Sunday, August 22, 2010

About That Failure of ShoreBank, Chicago, Illinois

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Here's what Mish has to say about it after excerpting reports from Bloomberg, The Wall Street Journal and Zero Hedge: This is what matte...