It is no coincidence that GS employees gave $2MM to Obama and the gov't has annointed them as untouchable.

Remember you can thank Corzine for bringing GS public in 1998. As a result, all the partners left, started hedge funds with their $50MM + payout, and drove the credit derivative market nutz.

Unless Taibbi worked in finance his understanding will be completely based from other people's assessments and he doesn't have any idea what they told him. It will be crap coming from his trap and I like to tap the bottle while I trist the cap so sit in my lap and don't give meno flap

No. Krugman generally knows what he is talking about. Taibbi clearly does not. I don't always agree with Krugman but I respect his views

Krugman has yet to join the real world. An "economist" hiding in academia is as about as useful as a Non-smoking section outdoors at the Beer Garden

That is a good deal. $550,000 for the business and a liquor license.

That is a good spot for an upscale lounge. Give LITM so competition. They have become soft