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Live Webcast: Calculated Risk: Inside the Billion-Dollar 'Gut' of Goldman Sachs

While competitors were still betting big on mortgage-backed securities, Goldman Sachs began betting against such derivatives at the start of 2007, even though this was still the fastest-growing business on Wall Street. While it didn't escape the credit crisis without recording a loss in the last quarter of 2008 and...

Tags: Business Structures, Charles Ellis, Ellis, Finance, Financial, Financial Accounting, Financial Services, Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Management, Personal Finance, Robert Arvanitis, Strategy, Webcast

Webcasts 2009-02-11

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Don’t Bet On The Calculator. Bet On The Thinker.

Sure, Goldman Sachs thinks it knows best or it wouldn’t have created its own digital system for analyzing financial risks it faces, aka its SecDB database and security pricing system. But that is not what has protected it from making the kind...

Tags: Finance, Financial Accounting, Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Management, Marketing, Pricing, Strategy, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

Blog posts 2009-02-11

Uncalculated Risk: The Fall Of Housing Prices. What Goldman Saw.

This is the U.S. Census Bureau's graphing of housing values from 1940-2000. Nationally, housing prices march upward for six uninterrupted decades. This kept up for another six years. But as the S&P/Case-Shiller Index, below, shows housing prices --...

Tags: Finance, Financial Accounting, Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Security, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

Blog posts 2009-02-10

How HP is different than Apple

How HP is different than AppleI would hope notIt would seem that Apple was pretty straight forward with you about trying to get the info on who it was that was doing the leaking. And as far as anyone knows they went through legal avenues to do it. ...

Tags: American Citizen, theory, phone company, Abramoff, Apple Inc., phone, Hewlett-Packard Co.

Discussion threads 2006-10-03

ULTIMATE HANDHELD CLASSIC LIBRARY (Blackberry and Windows PC Users) (Mobile)

ULTIMATE HANDHELD CLASSIC LIBRARYOver 3,000 classic worksBelow is a very small portion of the what is included in the library...LOUISA MAY ALCOTT: A GARLAND FOR GIRLS, AN OLD-FASHIONED GIRL, EIGHT COUSINS, JACK AND JILL, LITTLE MEN, LITTLE WOMEN, THE MYSTERIOUS KEY AND WHAT IT OPENED, UNDER THE LILACS, and Many...

Tags: Mobile, PC, Poem, RIM BlackBerry, Windows PC, Packard Technologies, AVONLEA, Handhelds, Strategy, Hardware, Management

Software downloads 2006-08-29

Judge adds two years to Microsoft antitrust deal

Judge adds two years to Microsoft antitrust dealHuh?I don't know if I am understanding this clearly or not but did MS just agree to license their things to the government for an additional two years at no cost? Why is it that the government gets all of this special...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), antitrust, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2006-05-17

U.S. could complain to WTO over China piracy

U.S. could complain to WTO over China piracyThat's a lot of DVDs250 Billion lost at $1 per DVD. Even if every person in China bought DVDs that would about 150 DVDs per person. Some houw I doubt everyone in china is buying 150 DVDs per year. More like a small...

Tags: Consumer electronics, DVD, piracy, World Trade Organization, Chinese People

Discussion threads 2006-04-25

Tech loses out in BlackBerry case

Tech loses out in BlackBerry caseCriminal ConspiracyI couldn't agree more with your article. The fact that NTP held RIM hostage with bogus patents is so telling of a dysfuntional patent defense process. I was hoping RIM would not settle and in the end NTP would have gotten nothing....

Tags: Handhelds, Litigation, RIM BlackBerry, NTP, e-mail, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2006-03-06

ULTIMATE HANDHELD CLASSIC LIBRARY (Windows PC Users) (Mobile)

ULTIMATE HANDHELD CLASSIC LIBRARYOver 3,000 classic worksBelow is a very small portion of the what is included in the library...LOUISA MAY ALCOTT: A GARLAND FOR GIRLS, AN OLD-FASHIONED GIRL, EIGHT COUSINS, JACK AND JILL, LITTLE MEN, LITTLE WOMEN, THE MYSTERIOUS KEY AND WHAT IT OPENED, UNDER THE LILACS, and Many...

Tags: Mobile, PC, Poem, Windows PC, Packard Technologies, AVONLEA, Handhelds, Strategy, Hardware, Management

Software downloads 2005-02-17

ULTIMATE HANDHELD CLASSIC LIBRARY (Windows PC Users with Handheld) (Mobile)

ULTIMATE HANDHELD CLASSIC LIBRARYOver 3,000 classic worksBelow is a very small portion of the what is included in the library...LOUISA MAY ALCOTT: A GARLAND FOR GIRLS, AN OLD-FASHIONED GIRL, EIGHT COUSINS, JACK AND JILL, LITTLE MEN, LITTLE WOMEN, THE MYSTERIOUS KEY AND WHAT IT OPENED, UNDER THE LILACS, and Many...

Tags: Mobile, PC, Poem, Windows PC, Packard Technologies, AVONLEA, Handhelds, Hardware

Software downloads 2005-02-17