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...spoken to a commission set up by an act of Congress to investigate the causes of last year's credit crunch. But more than a year after poor lending standards, unregulated products and bonus bonanzas helped spark the worst recession since the Great Depression, many say that reining in Wall Street is the only way to prevent another financial crisis. (Read "Hearings to Begin on Causes of Financial Crisis...
...lesson of the past year is that mistakes made on Wall Street can have real bad side effects on the rest of the economy," says Robert Johnson, a senior fellow at the Roosevelt Institute and a former chief economist of the Senate Banking Committee. "And that's adequate grounds to put in restraints before we have to have the next bailout." (See award-winning pictures of the fallout from the financial crisis...
...Blankfein even seemed to show some support for a consumer financial-product regulator, saying he thought there should be more attention paid to how financial markets interact with the retail market. But when it comes to more restrictions on the way large Wall Street firms like Goldman do business, Blankfein said there were already too many constraints. He said that since his firm began to be regulated by the Federal Reserve and not the Securities and Exchange Commission - a switch that happened when Goldman became a bank-holding company in late 2008 - the oversight of his firm had increased...
Goldman Sachs is doing its best to prove that what's good for its company is good for the rest of us. But image consultants and corporate-compensation experts say the Wall Street firm's recent moves won't quell the growing anger against the world's most profitable bank...
...proposed charitable-giving plan is already getting a warm reception by at least one group: Goldman's own rank and file. Top Wall Street recruiter Gary Goldstein says he has been hearing about the plan for some time now, and says the reaction from Goldman employees has been positive...