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by Charles Miller.
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Found via Daring Fireball, it seems Goldman Sachs is trying to find a way to give Facebook an insanely high valuation while avoiding all of the accounting rules that would require them to justify it publicly:
In a rare move, Goldman is planning to create a âspecial purpose vehicleâ to allow its high-net-worth clients to invest in Facebook, these people said. While the S.E.C. requires companies with more than 499 investors to disclose their financial results to the public, Goldmanâs proposed special purpose vehicle may be able get around such a rule because it would be managed by Goldman and considered just one investor, even though it could conceivably be pooling investments from thousands of clients. (The New York Times)
Also worth a read, The Rolling Stoneâs April 2010 article on Goldman Sachs as âThe Great Bubble Machineâ
The bank's unprecedented reach and power have enabled it to turn all of America into a giant pump-and-dump scam, manipulating whole economic sectors for years at a time, moving the dice game as this or that market collapses, and all the time gorging itself on the unseen costs that are breaking families everywhere â high gas prices, rising consumer credit rates, half-eaten pension funds, mass layoffs, future taxes to pay off bailouts.
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They achieve this using the same playbook over and over again. The formula is relatively simple: Goldman positions itself in the middle of a speculative bubble, selling investments they know are crap. Then they hoover up vast sums from the middle and lower floors of society with the aid of a crippled and corrupt state that allows it to rewrite the rules in exchange for the relative pennies the bank throws at political patronage.
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