oh my god look at this photo this is of course lloyd blankfein with the twinkie vest lloyd's getting ready to go his twinkies are wired to blow if ben won't inflate bill silver detonate true terrorist c.e.o. . my hair standing on end but i'm glad to see finally this recognition that lloyd blankfein is a financial terrorist and that the act of threatening to blow yourself up and to throw up of the economy or to throw up congress blow mob for a candidate for extortion every purposes and having the result of austerity measures people die innocently the civilians because you're in bed of the military industrial financial credit complex is terrorism terrorism terrorism those who terrorism if there is a need to put terrorists in a lynching to pounded to be them to the edge of the law is that sort of on fire burn a bit of an electric chair stab of death and look like what qualifies them we should do it now let's look at a nation where they confronted the likes of lloyd blankfein icelandic anger brings debt forgiveness and best recovery story icelanders who pelted parliament with rocks in tw

my hair standing on end but i'm glad to see that finally this recognition that lloyd blankfein is a financial terrorist and that the act of threatening to blow yourself up and to throw out of the economy or to throw out congress blow him off for a candle is for extortion ari purposes and having the result of austerity measures people die innocently civilians because you're better the military industrial financial credit complex is terrorism terrorism terrorism those killers of if there is a need to put terrorists in allusion to. build up to the edge of the law is that sort of fire going to church stamberg that look like oh qualifies that we should do it now let's look at a nation where they confronted the likes of lloyd blankfein icelandic anger brings debt forgiveness and best recovery story icelanders who pelted parliament with rocks in two thousand and nine demanding their leaders and bankers answer for the country's economic and financial collapse are reaping the benefits of their anger of throwing those rocks fitch ratings last week raised iceland to investment grade with a stable outloo

comes in the form of a market making provision let's remember market making for a second here's lloyd blankfein talking about it when charlie rose asked him if goldman investment advisors had ever bought securities from the firm sold them to clients and then bet against those same securities and no plane finds pregnant pause. i have to explain to you this is this is a problem as a market maker we are making dining and selling a thousand times a minute. probably that's what it's worth. probably we're just market makers now another one of the provisions has to do with hedge funds the volcker rule supposed to make it so banks can't own had funds let's remember why ok here are some headlines from the financial crisis days b.m.p. perry freezes funds as loan losses royal markets these were their investment funds and here's another one bear stearns hedge funds wiped out so there had to pump more than a billion dollars into those hedge funds and they ended up going bankrupt now the problem of course is there are exceptions to the hedge fund part of the volcker rule we're going to get into all of this h

>>> the new spokesman for the gay marriage movement is lloyd blankfein. he stars in a new ad, wading into a different national debate. but of course, we have to go back to friday as we start off this monday. apparently with losses. we have had the biggest best start for the s&p 500 in 25 years. we have seen it double since the march lows. pes are still low. >> right. we did get a confirmation of why we moved. i thought that's what the unemployment number is, yes, we should be going up. however, i do have to point out that we are at the exact channel where the s&p could be repelled. looking at the charts over the weekend, and just kind of struck we have moved so much that we are extended. so many different charts. i find that the most worrisome thing. >> short term overbought is what you're saying? >> yes. i just think it does matter. >> and oppenheimer asks, the technician came out this morning, he says he sees backing and filling at this point. we have moved so far, so fast. at this point, a backing and filling as he puts it is a pause that refreshes the

want those zombie shrieking to empower and to enable a vastly growing sector the finance sector lloyd blankfein gets more powerful jamie diamond gets more powerful the banking sector gets more powerful exactly because of this squealing desperate zombie debtors look at all these pension accounts like cal pers for example the biggest in california one of the biggest in the world there they assume seven percent return on investments which assume interest rates of four five or six percent interest rates for them because they're less than one percent or close to zero their return last year was one percent and they're just being essential a discarded by this form of economic or financial pressure and as it's called there's a technical term for financial repression so former chief. columnist from morgan stanley asia was interviewed at davos along a similar theme as well stephen roach explains how the fed is pulling the wool over our eyes so we have a lot of squealing zombie debtors in america and the u.k. and other debt debtor nations australia canada any time the notion that rates should be raised th

fed's official mandate though how do we know that and and how does that work exactly did you know lloyd blankfein pick up the phone and tell bernanke you did jump and he says how high. well bernanke doesn't really set the policies remember he's working for the banks isn't me is the chairman of the federal reserve and the federal reserve is a cartel back over that track again and so bernanke he doesn't really determine these policies before he announces something he's on the phone talking to his employers the banks say and how do you may know that is for the banks of the banks and so forth just follow the money that's the old adage isn't that if you want to know what's going on follow the money so you take all of these so-called bailouts that have been going on starting in big big time since two thousand and eight billions and billions and now we find out trillions of dollars being created out of nothing by the federal reserve and pumped into the economy where does it go go to the banks doesn't it and some of it of course goes to the big corporations like general motors and. to countries mexico an

alone we have other terrorist activities to conduct i'm going to see if there jamie dimon to lloyd blankfein that is some elementary school and fly by state america shaking down a kid for his five cent milk money and your foot so good you know that's the whole business model is shaking down whether it's taking them households making them kids taking down students taking them governments taking down the pentagon taking down the windows that's not their business model ok u.b.s. first of all barack obama has been photographed playing golf with the c.e.o. of u.b.s. america so he's in cahoots with them u.b.s. is also as we covered just two or three episodes ago they were involved in rigging libel or rates. that's right. that's right they're involved in of course a whole panoply of financial scandals and frauds of course after they bought paine webber my old firm in new york. the money launderers in washington in london decided the theory to be a good way to take switzerland out of the money laundering business and now we've got that money laundering that we saw in switzerland is moved to london a

meeting in the oval office a state department luncheon was held with the likes of henry kissinger lloyd blankfein of goldman sachs as well as the c.e.o.'s of chevron dream works disney and coca-cola on attendance now president obama said that he welcomes that china's peaceful rise and expects relations between the two countries to continue on a cooperative track his relationship is obviously a complicated one take a look at public opinion here in the u.s. a gallup poll from february tenth shows that fifty three percent of americans view not the u.s. but china as the world's leading economy and a.b.c. washington post poll from today shows that fifty two percent of americans have an unfavorable impression of china so with so much competition what will the relationship look like between the two joining me to discuss that is economic analyst gonzalo lira and all thanks so much for joining us tonight and i guess for starters what do you say about this poll this is the second year in a row now that americans say that they see china as the leading economic power and not the u.s. well it's not actually b

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goldman sachs, i was curious, how you see that business model and how you look at lloyd blankfein. ed him in the past. >> unequivocal in my praise of lloyd. i think he did a terrific job in bringing the company through a crisis. he's a fine human being. he's very smart. he's straightforward, decent -- >> what's your take on the business model? >> it's not as good as it was five years ago. that's true for all the investment banks. it's true for the commercial banks. you know, they are subject to much more scrutiny and particularly in terms of leverage and in terms of activities they can engage in. that will reduce the profitability, the return on equity they get now compared to what they could earn five or six or seven years ago. our position is we own warrants on about 43 million shares or thereabouts at 115 that are good for about a year and a half or just a little more. >> warren, why haven't -- why haven't you just bought a whole fertilizer company? >> well -- >> i mean, not that you don't manufacture enough yourself as we've seen today, but -- >> oh, wow. oh, wow. >> i knew ther

of goldman sachs, i think his name is lloyd blankfein, out there with buckets and scrub brushes, come to toledo, come to cleveland, come to america, the part you have hurt so deeply. wouldn't it be great? let him be joined by josh bolten who was there when the bush administration handed the toxic paper to the people of the united states. well, come on down, angelo, from countrywide. i think a little hard work would help you a whole lot. . moub bank of america? how about the c.e.o. there? how about jpmorgan chase? how about jim johnson who headed up fannie mae or hank paulson? oh, i'd love to see this. you know, as i speak , coming to light between the individual state governments and the big wall street banks over the widespread use of fraudulent schemes and missing paperwork that fueled the foreclosure crisis. as the presses reported, we are seeing the possible imposition of $25 billion in penalties against wells fargo, bank of america, jpmorgan chase, allied financial and citigroup. given the extent of the damage they caused, it's a small start. just in ohio the financing gap was $2