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If bankers donated just 10% of bonuses to Haiti, $4.7 billion would go to a country in need

So the supposed geniuses at Goldman Sachs, who helped get us into our current economic mess in the first place, just picked our pockets for no interest and bought Treasury bills?

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If bankers donated just 10% of bonuses to Haiti, $4.7 billion would go to a country in need

Fox to Beck: Maybe You Should Cut Back on the Gold a Little?

Something’s gone terribly wrong at Fox News —they keep responding to criticism as if it’s valid! Someone at the network sent a letter to Glenn Beck wondering why he’s always constantly shilling for gold. Recently, Fox has begun actually acknowledging mistakes , responding to satirical criticism , apologizing for errors, , and even promising to stop lying all the time.

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Fox to Beck: Maybe You Should Cut Back on the Gold a Little?

Wall St. Bankers Snub Obama, Duck D.C. Sit-Down Because of ‘Inclement Weather’

Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein , Citigroup chairman Dick Parsons , and Morgan Stanley CEO John Mack all skipped out on a scheduled dressing-down today from Barack Obama because “inclement weather” made it physically impossible for them to travel to Washington. Convenient! Obama met with 10 top banking executives, or “fat cats” as he’s taken to calling them these days , to yell at them for not lending enough money and generally being horrible people. But the worst of them, Goldman Sachs’ Lloyd Blankfein, is among the three that are participating via conference call because fog made it impossible for them to deploy the billions of dollars under their control in service of transporting them bodily to Washington, D.C

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Wall St. Bankers Snub Obama, Duck D.C. Sit-Down Because of ‘Inclement Weather’

The $9 Billion Check

This is the check Morgan Stanley received from Mitsubishi UFJ last fall that kept them from collapsing. While it's not be as big as a Publishers Clearing House check, it sure has a lot of 0's behind that dollar sign. Contribute: Add an image, link, video or comment