Tag Archives: Wall Street

“Worst Investment Ever” – Carl Icahn, Blockbuster’s Largest Shareholder

    “I don’t even–we have such different business models … I think we co-exist quite well with Netflix.” – Blockbuster CEO Jim Keyes I seriously laughed out loud when I saw this quote. The photo is funny too. via Blockbuster’s Largest Shareholder Calls Blockbuster Worst Investment Ever Made | Fast Company.

Taking Wall Street Firmly To Task

“I had grossly underestimated the level of extraordinarily unethical and even fraudulent behavior that had occurred on such a large scale,” Ferguson tells All Things Considered host Melissa Block, in a conversation airing Friday. via Inside Job Director Charles Ferguson, Taking Wall Street Firmly To Task : Monkey See : NPR.

Lloyd! 8==>

Apparently, Goldman Sachs would be in trouble if it were a Vegas casino. The issue deals with things called front-running and derivatives trading against its own investors. For the rest of us, “derivatives” is a general term used on Wall Street to describe any kind of securities trading that is done off the market andContinue reading “Lloyd! 8==>”

Wall Street’s Bailout Hustle : Rolling Stone

God bless MATT TAIBBI. He got it right again! This is the most important issue in America right now and the only magazine to deal with it right is Rolling Stone? Goldman Sachs and other big banks aren’t just pocketing the trillions we gave them to rescue the economy – they’re re-creating the conditions for another crash.Continue reading “Wall Street’s Bailout Hustle : Rolling Stone”