It’s Good to Be a Goldman

Robert Scheer / Truthdig Feb 1, 2013 Here's a get-out-of-jail-free card, and while we're at it, take this obscenely huge bonus for having wrecked the economy. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

CEO’s Demand Austerity to Fix Budget, Not End to Corporate Welfare

Tracy Bloom / Truthdig Nov 26, 2012 A group of corporate CEOs that contributed to the burgeoning deficit crisis want the poor and elderly to largely pay for the mess the greedy Wall Street fat cats helped create. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

What Capitalists Want for Christmas

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Nov 23, 2012 A group of CEOs led by Macy's Terry Lundgren calling itself the Fix the Debt coalition is hoping for a deficit-busting austerity budget this holiday season -- not a program to create American jobs. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Truthdigger of the Week: Ex-TARP Investigator Neil Barofsky

Staff / Truthdig Aug 5, 2012 In late 2008, Neil Barofsky was appointed the Treasury Department’s investigator of the bank bailouts. In the time since, he has suffered dismissal and deprecation from his colleagues and the corporations they're supposed to regulate.Since he was appointed to investigate the bank bailouts in 2008, Neil Barofsky has suffered dismissal and deprecation from his colleagues and the banks they're supposed to regulate. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

To Catch a Bankster

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Jul 21, 2012 Traditional investigations by regulators of all the suspect hanky-panky in the banking industry have produced nothing in the way of fundamental reform and protected the worst repeat offenders. So why not bribe big bankers to turn one another in? Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

A Rare Admission That Money Trumps Everything Else

David Sirota / Truthdig May 25, 2012 New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo is using his power to undermine a popular proposal to increase the minimum wage. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Truthdigger of the Week: Greg Smith

Staff / Truthdig Mar 16, 2012 Yes, as a high-level executive for Goldman Sachs for more than a decade, Greg Smith was part of the toxic culture he decried in the resignation letter printed in Wednesday's New York Times and re-posted around the world. Thus, he was part of the problem. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Goldman Sachs Exec Exits With a Bang

Staff / Truthdig Mar 14, 2012 We're guessing that outgoing Goldman Sachs executive director Greg Smith's last day on the job Wednesday was pretty awkward, given what he had to say about his employer in a scorching Op-Ed article printed in The New York Times for the occasion. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Goldman Sachs’ Profit Takes a Major Plunge in Q2

Staff / Truthdig 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. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

‘Left, Right & Center’: Goldman Grilled; Oil Spilled; AZ Bill

BLANK May 1, 2010 The oil well spill that's spewing 250,000 gallons of oil daily into the Gulf of Mexico is reaching shores and waterways now. Is "Drill, Baby, Drill" over now? Who will pay the political price? That same question can be asked in light of the Arizona immigration law: Who wins? Who loses? Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

‘God, What a Piece of Crap’

Robert Scheer / Truthdig Apr 28, 2010 It was the Perry Mason moment in the unraveling of what was left of Goldman Sachs’ reputation Only in this case, it involved a grizzled former prosecutor, Sen Carl Levin, rather than a genial defense attorney . Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Goldman Sachs Bigwigs Dispute Charges

Staff / Truthdig Apr 28, 2010 Step right up and you'll see spectacles that will amaze from Tuesday's face-off between senators and Goldman Sachs boss men, such as the awesome Fabrice Tourre denying "categorically" that he misled clients by selling them mysterious bundled financial entities tied to doomed mortgages. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )