Goldman Sachs made $300m last month from the rescue of one of the investment bank’s troubled hedge funds, even as external investors lost more than a fifth of their money. The bank’s Global Equity Opportunities fund, into which it injected $2bn of its own money as part of a $3bn bail-out last month, recovered strongly after the rescue but still underperformed badly for August as a whole. The paper profit positions Goldman as a big beneficiary of last month’s credit squeeze and will boost quarterly profits when the bank reports 3Q results in a fortnight, although it is also likely to suffer from a drop in the value of debt not yet syndicated.
The richest one percent of this country owns half our country's wealth, five trillion dollars. One third of that comes from hard work, two thirds comes from inheritance, interest on interest accumulating to widows and idiot sons and what I do, stock and real estate speculation. It's bullshit. You got ninety percent of the American public out there with little or no net worth. I create nothing. I own.
Friday, September 07, 2007
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