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Goldman Sachs’ Profit Takes a Major Plunge in Q2

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Posted on Jul 20, 2010

Those of us who have stood aghast and watched as Goldman Sachs seemed to sail almost unscathed through the erupting economic catastrophe of the last two years (thank you, bailout!) might stop now for a moment of pure schadenfreude, as the megabank’s profits took a precipitous dive in the second quarter of this year.  —KA

Los Angeles Times:

Hit by a big government fine and difficult trading conditions, leading Wall Street bank Goldman Sachs Group Inc. has reported a sharply lower profit.

The bank announced Tuesday morning that profit in the second quarter of the year was down 86% from the first quarter of 2010 and 84% from the second quarter of 2009 to $613 million, or 0.78 cents a share.

The announcement by the company comes just days after it settled a lawsuit with the Securities and Exchange Commission, which had accused the bank of misrepresenting a deal it made during the financial crisis.

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By PatrickHenry, July 20, 2010 at 2:18 pm Link to this comment

They had to take a $550 million dollar hit on the quarterly profits.

Just a drop in the bucket of the billions in pension funds they colluded on, shorted and free marketed out of individual accounts.

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By rico, suave, July 20, 2010 at 1:14 pm Link to this comment

How is it possible that Goldman’s profits have suffered so much? To read truthdig, you’d think that since Goldman runs the entire fucking planet, endless, increasing profitability would be inevitable.

Schadenfreude indeed!

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By samosamo, July 20, 2010 at 11:07 am Link to this comment

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Great, but are the criminal thieving bastards being held
accountable(prosecution and punishment) for their crimes and
have our congressional complicit criminals done ANYTHING to
stop this ongoing grand larceny(performing their duties as the
constitution states) which even though it may have taken a drop
is still in operation, with plenty of thankful members of our, the
people’s government.

Crap, once again, I am supposed to be ‘overly grateful’ for small
piddling favors.

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