shitty sheep, roman tyrants, and goldman sachs is totes not spartacus here

[seperis]

Link from tzikeh: Goldman Sachs Senate hearing: live blog by Richard Adams.

This may be the greatest liveblogging of anything ever.
"You knew it was a shitty deal and you didn't tell your clients," Levin tells Sparks. "Does that bother you at all?" Sparks goes down the Reagan route in his defence: "I don't recall," he says

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[cookie57]

I used to live in Michigan, and I kinda love Carl Levin too. He's a rumpled professor looking, really smart, full of integrity, liberal guy. I used to love voting for someone so liberal and so smart and I miss that now that I live in a much more red leaning state. *sigh*

[helene94]

I know, it's awesome, right? Not Goldman Sachs, they suck, but watching (listening, in my case), to them getting smacked down by Levin, it is FANTASTIC!

[out_there]

"Were you approached by Graywolf?" asks McCaskill, sounding like she's reading lines from an upcoming X-Men movie staring Hugh Jackman's father.

Bwahahaa! That is awesome.

[anonymous]

Interesting, though Sparks' reply that he felt that adjective was a criticism of his personal performance on this deal sounded true to me: most corporate environments I have worked in maintain a culture of fear in order to control their employees, including middle and high-level management

Of course

[anonymous]

I mean this would include everything such as corporate car, expense reimbursement terms, gym memberships, unusual retirement benefits etc. (all perks, perquisites, golden parachutes and everything else.. )

Bonus: most companies will end up with a much better bottom line (as well as more job openings).

[aurora_84]

"Were you approached by Graywolf?" asks McCaskill, sounding like she's reading lines from an upcoming X-Men movie staring Hugh Jackman's father.
OH GOD. :D