dimelab dimelab: shrinking the gap between talk and action.

Goldman chief Topic in The Credit Debacle Catalog

Goldman Chief Lloyd Blankfein (1).

RollingStone.com: Matt Taibbi | Taibblog Thu 2010-09-23 09:37 EDT

Bob Rubin Cuddles

...No man's behavior looks attractive when he's cheating on his wife, but this little tell-all by a woman who had a sort-of fling with former Goldman chief and Treasury Secretary Bob Rubin is more than unusually embarrassing...The most disgusting (and revealing) part of the story is, to me, this part of Iris Mack's narrative... A multi-multi-millionaire giving a homeless guy a dollar on the way to the Ritz...if that isn't the perfect metaphor for the modern ``Third Way'' Democratic Party, I don't know what is...Bob Rubin's main job at Citi was to hang around and be available for his political connections. His job, as I understand it, was a sort of permanent, ongoing bribe...

Bob Rubin cuddle; com; Matt Taibbi; rollingstone; Taibblog.

Thu 2009-07-23 00:00 EDT

naked capitalism: A Conflict of Interest is Not a Conflict of Interest If It Involves Goldman

former Goldman co-chairman Steven Friedman; Goldman chief Lloyd Blankfein; moral blindness

conflict; interesting; Involves Goldman; naked capitalism.