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Goldman Accused of Cutting the Brakes

By Mary Bottari

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One of the most salient analogies of the financial meltdown was offered by Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission chair Phil Angelides when he grilled Goldman Sachs CEO, Lloyd Blankfein, over the firm?s unsavory proprietary trading. Angelides was questioning Goldman?s practice of minting toxic mortgage-backed securities and badgering credit-rating companies for the highest rating for those securities, while betting in the market that those securities would later fail.

Angelides likened this business practice to ?selling someone a car with faulty brakes and then taking out an insurance policy on the driver.? With Friday?s Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filing of civil fraud charges against Goldman Sachs, we learned more about those faulty vehicles. We learned that Goldman had cut the brakes.

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Full post as published by PR Watch on April 19, 2010 (boomark / email).

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