How one couple beat Goldman Sachs and saved their home SAN JOSE, Calif. Full Article at McClatchy

SAN JOSE, Calif. -- When California wildfires ruined their jewelry business, Tony Becker and his wife fell months behind on their mortgage payments and experienced firsthand the perils of subprime mortgages. Full Article at Myrtle Beach Sun News

Goldman spent years buying hundreds of thousands of subprime mortgages, many of them from some of the more unsavory lenders in the business, and packaging them into high-yield bonds. Full Article at Columbus Ledger-Enquirer

SAN JOSE, Calif. -- When California wildfires ruined their jewelry business, Tony Becker and his wife fell months behind on their mortgage payments and experienced firsthand the perils of subprime mortgages. Full Article at Anchorage Daily News

John Coffee, a Columbia University law professor who served on an advisory committee to the New York Stock Exchange, said that investment banks have wide latitude to manage their assets, and so the legality of Goldman's maneuvers depends on what its... Full Article at Free Internet Press

Bought and converted into high-yield bonds tens of thousands of mortgages from subprime lenders that became the subjects of FBI investigations into whether they had misled borrowers or exaggerated applicants' incomes to justify making hefty... Full Article at Palm Beach Post

WASHINGTON — In 2006 and 2007, Goldman Sachs Group peddled more than $40 billion in securities backed by at least 200,000 risky home mortgages, but never told the buyers it was secretly betting that a sharp drop in U.S. housing prices would send the... Full Article at Michael Moore - This Just In

Lloyd Craig Blankfein, CEO of The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc, from left, Kenneth Irvine Chenault, CEO and Chairman of American Express, Kenneth D. Lewis, Chairman, CEO, and President of Bank of America and Edward Yingling, president of the American... Full Article at Kansas.com

A five-month investigation by McClatchy Washington Bureau correspondent Greg Gordon shows how Goldman Sachs sold these securities to unsuspecting buyers, used offshore tax havens to market them to financial institutions worldwide and benefited from... Full Article at Belleville News-Democrat

A McClatchy investigation found Goldman Sachs was buoyed by bailout decisions involving Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson. Full Article at Sacramento Bee

WASHINGTON -- In 2006 and 2007, Goldman Sachs Group peddled more than $40 billion in securities backed by at least 200,000 risky home mortgages, but never told the buyers it was secretly betting that a sharp drop in U.S. housing prices would send... Full Article at Myrtle Beach Sun News

WASHINGTON -- In 2006 and 2007, Goldman Sachs Group peddled more than $40 billion in securities backed by at least 200,000 risky home mortgages, but never told the buyers it was secretly betting that a sharp drop in U.S. housing prices would send the... Full Article at Anchorage Daily News

The Obama administration's Wall Street "reform" bill signals that presidents and their bank benefactors are back to thinking they can pilfer whatever they want. I recall that September day like it was yesterday—the explosion so stunning, so memorable. Full Article at In These Times

Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner arrives on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Oct. 29, 2009, to testify before the House Financial Services Committee. I recall that September day like it was yesterday -- the explosion so stunning, so memorable. Full Article at Salon

I recall that September day like it was yesterday — the explosion so stunning, so memorable. It wasn't 9/11/01, it was 9/29/08 — a moment when a rare blast of populist democracy briefly singed the economic terrorists who hold the Capitol hostage. Full Article at The Seattle Times

Where did our wealth go? How do we claw it back? And when are we going to punish the culprits? Heh, my refrain being sounded in the "mainstream media": Where are the cops? Full Article at The Market Ticker

Former U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson arrives for testimony before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee July 16, 2009 in Washington, DC. Full Article at In These Times

Alistair Darling has been accused by Henry Paulson, the former US Treasury Secretary, of double-crossing America when he effectively vetoed the acquisition of Lehman Brothers by Barclays Bank in September last year. Full Article at Times Online

Evidence that the US is a failed state is piling up faster than I can record it. One conclusive hallmark of a failed state is that the crooks are inside the government, using government to protect and to advance their private interests. Full Article at The Market Oracle