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Blankfein's Goldman Sachs legacy grows darker

Lansdowne Partners, Europe's biggest hedge fund, has sold its entire $850 million position in Goldman Sachs, according to The Telegraph. It's unclear just how much the hedge fund lost on the

Goldman Sachs clout in Washington on the decline?

CNBC poses a provocative question: Is Goldman Sachs losing clout in Washington? It's fair to say the firm has lost a lot of its cachet in the capital. Some consider it almost toxic. In this election

A blow to the "Paulson made me do it" defense?

One theme in the many shareholder criticisms of how Bank of America handled the Merrill Lynch purchase was that then-CEO Ken Lewis had fielded a lucrative bailout package from then Treasury Secretary

Wall Street's financial crisis: The movie--an update

We've noted that HBO is making a movie based on the financial crisis, which would seem to be a promising endeavor given its success with Recount, a terrific movie based on the epic battle in Florida

Wall Street's financial crisis: The movie

What we have yet to see from all the drama on Wall Street is the definitive chronicle--a book to capture the era like Barbarians at the Gate captured takeover madness or the way Liar's Poker captured

A remarkable video of John Mack

John Mack delivered an amazing speech at Wharton and fortunately it has been posted on YouTube. It appears to be a brutally honest look at Morgan Stanley ( MS ) at the nadir of the crisis. It's full of

PR managers take note

Fortune pronounces the Charlie Rose show the place to be if you want to engage in serious talk about the financial crisis. Rose has hosted the likes of Tim Geithner, Henry Paulson, Larry Summers,

Paulson's real mistake

The media has been obsessed with the one-year anniversary of the demise of Lehman Brothers. The big question is whether it was a mistake to let Lehman Brothers fail. A lot of people think it was and

Paulson controversy won't abate

Henry Paulson's role as Treasury Secretary has proven to be very controversial. If you thought that controversy was now dying down, you might want to think again. The New York Times has weighed in

Can the bull save Bank of America?

Bank of America's new a $10 million print and online advertising campaign--which will start up in earnest in July---touts a new Bank of America Merrill Lynch investment bank division, aiming to