Times, November 8, 2009.
550 “I mean, they’re going to rewrite Genesis and have Goldman Sachs offering the apple”: Warren Buffett, CNBC transcripts, April 16, 2010.
550 In April 2010 the Securities and Exchange Commission brought its only major case against Wall Street since the crisis: SEC v. Goldman Sachs & Co. and Fabrice Tourre.
550 legal experts described the case as “thin”: Kian Abouhossein, a banks analyst at JPMorgan told the Financial Times on April 21, 2010, “The SEC has a very weak case, but for the business, for shareholders, the best thing is probably to settle. If they settle, they can start silencing the debate about reputational damage and share price damage.”
551 “Boy that timeberwof [sic] was one shitty deal ”: The Goldman e-mail had been subpoenaed by the U.S. Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations. It is available, along with other internal Goldman e-mails: http://levin.senate.gov/newsroom/supporting/2010/PSI.Exhibits.pdf.
551 “I think that’s very unfortunate to have on e-mail”: David Viniar, CSPAN, April 27, 2010.
551 “I don’t trust Goldy on this”: The e-mail had been subpoenaed by the U.S. Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations. It is available: http://levin.senate.gov/newsroom/supporting/2010/PSI.Exhibits.pdf.
552 “People need to tone down the rhetoric around financial services and stop the populism and be adults”: Transcript, 92nd St. Y Captains of Industry Event, May 6, 2010. 552 “I don’t have a problem with the Abacus transaction at all”: Andrew Ross Sorkin, “From Buffett, Thought-out Support for Goldman,” New York Times, May 3, 2010.
552 “I didn’t think a lot about theory. I just understood how bad it could be”: Henry M. Paulson, promoting his book on CBS Sunday Morning, January 31, 2010.
553 “must be looking forward to going back to that nice spot you have waiting for you at Goldman”: John Heilemann, “Obama Is from Mars, Wall Street Is from Venus,” New York Magazine, May 22, 2010.
554 “The fact is that some businesses require size”: Jamie Dimon’s letter to investors in JPMorgan Chase’s annual report from 2010.
554 “We cannot control ourselves”: John Mack made this comment at a Vanity Fair/Bloomberg News panel discussion on media coverage of the financial crisis on November 18, 2009. Michael J. Moore, “Morgan Stanley’s Mack Welcomes Regulation by Fed,” Bloomberg News, November 19, 2009.
555 “This generation of Wall Street CEOs could be the ones to forfeit America’s trust”: Elizabeth Warren, “Wall Street’s Race to the Bottom,” Wall Street Journal, February 9, 2010.
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