Alan Young

As Earnings Are Upon Us, Some Goldman Thoughts

If you like GS, then you must LOVE the merging of corporate and federal power.

The US Treasury has increasingly become a subsidiary of GS, using public money to benefit private bankers. When it was just a little back-scratching, nobody cared much. When it came to Hank Paulson seizing the power of life and death over major banking firms, and using it to enrich GS, the protests started. And it's only gotten worse.

This *baffles* you? Wow... good thing there's no useful information in your article, because it would be really sad if some naive reader were to rely on advice from someone so out-of-touch with the fundamental values of fairness and economic opportunity.

Eye on Financial ETFs this Earnings Season

Goldman Sachs reporting Tuesday morning means that the market can't fall until Wednesday. Love it or hate it, they run the Treasury and there's no way they will report bad earnings.

Preview from Europe: All Fools' Day

Great commentary, and I love the George Carlin clip.... Calling it "on the bailouts" is a bit of a stretch, since it was recorded in December of 2006, but that just shows how "plus ça, change, plus c'est la même chose."