como algún forero ha puesto en un tag: in goldman we trust. Célebre capítulo del libro el crac del 29 de John Kenneth Galbraith. La historia parece repetirse y encima con los mismos actores.

Hasta que punto unas historias así son veraces siempre son difíciles de hacerlas simples para comprenderlas. Reconozco que no me entero de casi nada, pero me pregunto cuál es el límite entre los lobbies y el government como cualquier profano que se precie y, en consecuencia, si el propio lobbie no es claramente un instrumento del gobierno (político de turno) en su propio interés.
Tampoco quiero pecar de ingenuidad si dudo que la crítica al posicionamiento en el mercado de un grupo es veraz; no sé quién compite con quién, pero entre elegir si el culpable es el mercado o es la política, no tengo ninguna duda.

Gran video. Solo les ha faltado meter un poco de 11-S más a fondo, Irán, petroleo más conflictos geopolíticos y ya lo tenemos completo


En el minuto 1:30 o así del segundo video habla de una cesta de monedas. Max le responde:

Too late for gold, too late for honesty, too late for integrety.

__________________

Como no, Obama obedece y pone en su gobierno al, hasta ahora, jefe de prensa de Goldman Sachs. Lo pone nada menos que de segundo del Tesoro. Se encargará de temas económicos, pero tb de temas ambientales. Curiosamente Goldman Sachs tiene mucho interés en que se apruebe "cap and trade" la legislación contra el supuesto "calentamiento global", porque ganaría mucho dinero. ¿USA cuando vas a despertar?

White House Taps Hormats for State Post - WSJ.com

Obama contrata al jefe de prensa de Goldman Sachs para segundo del Tesoro

WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration picked Goldman Sachs Group Inc. Vice Chairman Robert Hormats to be the State Department's undersecretary for economic, energy and agricultural affairs, the White House announced Friday.

Mr. Hormats, if confirmed by the Senate, will buttress Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's campaign to use economic, trade and environmental issues to redefine Washington's relationship with nations such as China, India and Russia, said administration officials.

Mr. Hormats also will play a central role in managing Washington's "strategic and economic dialogue" with Beijing, a diplomatic exchange overseen by Mrs. Clinton and Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner. The first Obama administration U.S.-China dialogue is slated for this month in Washington, according to the State Department.

Mr. Hormats "will be key in Secretary Clinton's efforts to bring more visibility to the work of the department on economic matters," a senior U.S. official said Friday.

Mr. Hormats said he couldn't comment -- standard practice for nominees before and during the confirmation process.

Before joining Goldman Sachs, Mr. Hormats had a career in public service, holding posts in Republican and Democratic administrations.

He served during the 1970s as an economic adviser in the White House to former national security adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski. Mr. Hormats helped to manage the Nixon administration's opening of diplomatic relations with China's communist government.

__________________

Otra en clave de humor, pero que podría ser cierta.

Goldman Sachs Internal Memo: The Cartoon Lounge : The New Yorker

Goldman Sachs Internal Memo

After all that federal aid, a resurgent Goldman Sachs is on course to dole out bonuses that could rival the record paydays of the heady bull-market years. Goldman… announced that it had earmarked $11.4 billion so far this year to compensate its workers. At that rate, Goldman employees could, on average, earn roughly $770,000 each this year.

—The Times.

Internal Memorandum No. 8121b

ATTN: Employees of Goldman Sachs

We did it. Bottom of the ninth, down by three, bases loaded, and we cranked another grand slam to the moon. They may have shot Lennon, but nothing can kill the Beatles.

I admit things looked bleak for a minute there. We had to convert to a bank holding company and were forced to accept a taxpayer bailout. It felt un-American. Terribly unbanksmanly. But we accepted the money, knowing that we could magically weave it into a much larger mountain of money.

We had a few hard months there, didn’t we? They regulated our corporate jet so that we could no longer use it to fly from hole to hole on the green. Dave had to drain his money pool to half capacity. I stopped injecting gold into my blood. They don’t call it a recession for nothing. One day, we’ll look back on the year we received only five-figure bonuses and laugh.

Wanting to celebrate our renewed success is natural, but it’s important that we don’t go crazy here. Remember, ten per cent of the non-bank country is unemployed, and even those who are working have “real” jobs, where payment is proportional to the creation of a “product” or a “service.” Those poor bastards. So I ask that, in celebrating our raping of the stock market, we show restraint in the following ways:

* Please limit high-fives and chest bumps to a dozen a day.
* Don’t wear your crowns, except around the office.
* Stop paying for things in Monopoly money—I understand it is the same as real money to us, but there have been some complaints.
* For now, let’s take down the giant scoreboard that reads “Main Street: zero. Wall Street: a billion gazillion bajillion.”

Furthermore, to avoid drawing criticism from the press, this year the bonuses, expected to be comically large, will be distributed in blood diamonds, which can be easily concealed in a briefcase so it looks like we’re working.

I’d like to thank everyone who made this possible—for a second time. Respect to President Obama for keeping us in the green. Thanks to the big guy upstairs (me). And let’s not forget all the ordinary Americans, who, for some unfathomable reason, have refused to put us behind bars. We are literally taking money out of their wallets. Seriously, with these returns we are making Madoff look like a little kid with his hand caught in the ****** jar. Amateur!

Yours in money,

Lloyd Blankfein, C.E.O., Goldman Sachs

__________________

Siempre nos quedará su canal en youtube (hasta que se lo cierren, claro)

Dales cera Max :