Goldman Sachs Reaches $5 Billion Settlement over Financial Crisis

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br>Goldman Sachs has reached a tentative $5 billion settlement with federal and state investigators over the investment bank’s role in the 2008 financial crisis. Goldman was under investigation for lying about the value of the mortgage-backed securities it sold in the years leading up to the crash. The sale of toxic securities helped trigger the global economic recession. Under the terms of the tentative settlement, Goldman will pay billions in civil penalties. No one will go to jail.<br></span><img alt="Hdlns2 goldmansachs" height="225" src="https://www.democracynow.org/images/headlines/92/29092/quarter_hd/hdlns2-goldmansachs.jpg" width="400"></div>

Goldman Sachs Reaches $5 Billion Settlement over Financial Crisis

Goldman Sachs has reached a tentative $5 billion settlement with federal and state investigators over the investment bank’s role in the 200...

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Hillary Clinton: I’m running for Goldman Sachs, Saudi Arabia, Soros, Rothschild & Monsanto

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br></span></div> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A vote for Hillary is a vote for Goldman Sachs and the top 0.1%.<br>A vote for Hillary is a vote AGAINST the 99%.<br>A vote for Hillary is a vote to destroy the middle class and make the poor even poorer.<br>It is a vote for breadline wages and much higher unemployment – it’s a vote for penury & poverty.<br>It is a vote to recruit more terrorists and to instigate more conflict and war.<br>It is a vote to waste even more money on the military and to increase Corporate Welfare.<br>It is a vote to destroy civil liberties and to militarize and brutalize the Police.<br>It is a vote to destroy America. America as we know it, will not survive her Presidency.<br><br>Hillary’s biggest donors – the big banks<br><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirtaJhEFx8T1ubEOtN6l6ZulXYILl1VyMbp9ci3by7y7-OexFGz5gIkGh3j1Y9xOkJUC0HiFpJs20EuoZQBFgWPjz_V2Qrq5FF0jfKWFJNv23JrrHG6gmMfDBf2z3LGKsdl7fIPsEZ3vw/s1600/Hillary+Clinton+campaign+donors.jpg"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirtaJhEFx8T1ubEOtN6l6ZulXYILl1VyMbp9ci3by7y7-OexFGz5gIkGh3j1Y9xOkJUC0HiFpJs20EuoZQBFgWPjz_V2Qrq5FF0jfKWFJNv23JrrHG6gmMfDBf2z3LGKsdl7fIPsEZ3vw/s1600/Hillary+Clinton+campaign+donors.jpg"></a></span></div>

Hillary Clinton: I’m running for Goldman Sachs, Saudi Arabia, Soros, Rothschild & Monsanto

A vote for Hillary is a vote for Goldman Sachs and the top 0.1%. A vote for Hillary is a vote AGAINST the 99%. A vote for Hillary is a vo...

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Goldman Sachs, HSBC, BASF sued in first US metals price manipulation case

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div style="line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Four major global firms are to appear in a New York court accused of manipulating platinum and palladium prices for eight years. The law suit is the first of its kind in US history.</span></div> <div style="line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: white; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Those accused include units of Goldman Sachs Group, the world’s biggest global investment bank, HSBC Holdings, Europe's largest bank by market value, the metals unit of BASF SE (BAS) ), the world’s largest chemical company, and Standard Bank Group from South Africa, the world’s largest producer of platinum and second largest producer of palladium after Russia.</span></span></div> <div style="line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <img src="https://encrypted-tbn1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSNe9crE8zebbM3iBd90leE_5ceOgVHeQYARft9EXlXzSj0VTrJxw"></div> </div></div>

Goldman Sachs, HSBC, BASF sued in first US metals price manipulation case

Four major global firms are to appear in a New York court accused of manipulating platinum and palladium prices for eight years. The law ...

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Goldman Sachs conquers Europe

<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">While ordinary people fret about austerity and jobs, the eurozone’s corridors of power have been undergoing a remarkable transformation.<br>The ascension of Mario Monti to the Italian prime ministership is remarkable for more reasons than it is possible to count. By replacing the scandal-surfing Silvio Berlusconi, Italy has dislodged the undislodgeable. By imposing rule by unelected technocrats, it has suspended the normal rules of democracy, and maybe democracy itself. And by putting a senior adviser at Goldman Sachs in charge of a Western nation, it has taken to new heights the political power of an investment bank that you might have thought was prohibitively politically toxic.<br>This is the most remarkable thing of all: a giant leap forward for, or perhaps even the successful culmination of, the Goldman Sachs Project.<br><br><img src="http://i1.wp.com/osnetdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Pg-12-eurozone-graphic.jpg?resize=620%2C350"></span><br>

Goldman Sachs conquers Europe

While ordinary people fret about austerity and jobs, the eurozone’s corridors of power have been undergoing a remarkable transformation. The...

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