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Over the past two months, Paulson's public image has taken quite a beating. The former Goldman Sachs CEO entered September as the can-do dealmaker who seemed to have finally gotten the yearlong mortgage crisis under control. Now, after the expensive rescues of Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and AIG, the failure of Lehman Brothers, and the painfully dramatic struggle to get a $700 billion financial bailout bill through Congress, he is a much-diminished figure. He has zigzagged and he has waffled and he has backtracked. His decisions and his motives have been harshly questioned on Capitol Hill...
...banks to acquire investment dealers on Toronto's Bay Street, the country's financial hub. As a result, these institutions are subject to the same strict rules as commercial banks, while U.S. investment dealers are subject to only light supervision from the Securities and Exchange Commission. Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs, of course, will now be under the U.S. Federal Reserve's supervision since they have been chartered as bank-holding companies...
...Citigroup and UBS about what lines of business to pursue will be made with more of an eye to how much risk comes along with the profit. Merrill Lynch's running into the arms of Bank of America and its steady-Eddie deposit base, and Morgan Stanley's and Goldman Sachs' opting to become bank holding companies can be read as early evidence of the move toward that balance...
When firms did steer clear of what was, in retrospect, excessive risk, the tone typically came from the top. Goldman Sachs, which has a long history of CEO interest in risk management and rotates its traders and risk managers through one another's jobs, pulled back from mortgage-related securities earlier than most after direct orders from...
...Goldman report suggests that over the next year, "lagging" sectors of the economy - like construction, manufacturing, financial services and retail - are likely to incur many of the coming losses. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, some of these sectors already have seen deep cuts of late. Reich says all industries that rely on discretionary spending are at risk, while regions where at-risk industries once thrived could be battered. Dwindling housing and construction markets could cripple the Sun Belt; hospitality-heavy regions like Florida could suffer from a lack of tourist spending; and auto-manufacturing states like Michigan should...