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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