Who's profiting from the credit crisis?

[Hannah Bell]

DAVID WEIDNER'S WRITING ON THE WALL
Goldman is getting the best of the credit crisis
Commentary: Opponents have been vanquished and bad bets wiped away
By David Weidner, MarketWatch

Not often do you regard a company whose stock is about 50% off its 52-week high as a success story.
But a success is exactly what Goldman Sachs Group Inc. is shaping up to be at this stage of the credit crisis. If we were to begin the long journey back to stability today, Goldman would undoubtedly emerge even more powerful than before.

Commercial banks such as Citigroup Inc. are obvious winners in the credit debacle. They've been able to buy battered banks at fire-sale prices. America is about to become a country with three national banks that have big broker/dealers as subsidiaries.

http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/whos-profiting-crisis-goldman-sachs/story.aspx?guid={C177EA75-3EB8-4631-B1EC-6EBAE68CDCB7}

[ben_meyers]

1. Warren Buffett and George Soros for two. n/t

[stray cat]

2. Obama and Biden you could argue - but that doesn't make them bad guys

You could even argue the democrats in general.

[zbdent]

3. banks in the Caymans and Switzerland?

[chill_wind]

4. K & R n/t

[bbgrunt]

5. hank paulson

[chill_wind]

8. And all the other GS wheels.

some past, some present

http://www.nndb.com/company/076/000057902/

Useful and interesting:

http://www.nndb.com/

[mhatrw]

6. Bush cronies and Paulson cronies n/t

[johnaries]

7. More monopolies, more companies that are "too big to fail".

Yeah, we can do nothing and let the "free market" take care of itself. That means less competition and, as usual, the little guys (you and me) get screwed.

[girl gone mad]

9. kick

[chill_wind]

10. kicking...

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