Jon Stewart

Squashing the Goldman Beef

You can always tell when you’re talking to someone who at one point in their career worked at Goldman Sachs. How? Simple.  Within the first 5 minutes or so, they will begin a sentence with the phrase “When I was at Goldman,”. This is the real world equivalent of Anchorman‘s Ron Burgundy telling a girl…

Lucas Van Praag's "To Do" List

Lucas Van Praag probably has one of the toughest (albeit well-compensated) jobs on the planet these days. As the Global Head of Corporate Communications for Goldman Sachs, he is literally the man with his finger in the dike, just barely containing the deluge of criticism and disgust that is on the verge of becoming a…

Cody Drops the "F" Bomb Again…Fascism

[vodpod id=Groupvideo.2751021&w=425&h=350&fv=%26rel%3D0%26border%3D0%26] The above video, from April, is a great example of the ridicule that Democrats are heaping on anyone who disagrees with President Obama’s continuation of the Republican bailout scheme.  Both parties are complicit in this unprecedented wealth transfer, but the left only disliked it when it was a Bush/Paulson phenomenon.  For the record,…

Cuomo to Thain: I Know What You Did Last Christmas

Aww Yeah! Forget about that Jon Stewart vs. James Cramer noise…who cares? The real action is taking place in the New York State Attorney General’s Circle of Death between Andrew Cuomo aka Spitzer 2.0 and Merrill Lynch aka the Hamburglar of Wall Street. From DealBook (NYT) The office of Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo filed…