Angry Banker

As Earnings Are Upon Us, Some Goldman Thoughts

Obviously the commenter above didn't read your entire article. Your point that GS hires the best, so it is no wonder that those same people end up in the upper echelons of government, is right on point. This does not make them evil. It just means they are good at what they do.

And all this rubbish about Paulson basically using the government to save GS is also ridiculous. I get tired of hearing about the government indirectly "secretly funneled" billions to GS through AIG. Wasn't the whole point of bailing out AIG so that it could meet its obligations? If it didn't then use some of its bailout money to pay on claims that were due, then why bail them out? GS paid a fair price for the CDO's etc that it purchased from AIG, so when AIG paid what was due to GS, that was the natural consequence of AIG's bailout, not some sinister government conspiracy.

Google Increases Home Page Text by 33%. Are They Scared of Microsoft?

Its hard to believe all the hype about Bing the last few days. Today I met a conscious decision to use Bing instead of Google to do all the things I normally do with Google. To be fair, Bing is still in Beta mode, but based on my usage today, I found:

1) The image search was buggy and the definitions for various image sizes were ill conceived

2) The map functionality couldn't handle directions

3) The video search had broken links

4) The search engine repeated numerous results

Beta has a long way to go before being better than Google. So they'd better get busy before making Beta into Alpha.