"You don't want to hit people over the head with the coolness of what you're doing too soon, " says Mr Goldman.
What amazes Mr Goldman is that the Pentagon, after years of accepting this arrangement, should suddenly seem so shocked by it even more bizarrely when, at the same time, it has just started getting entire berets made overseas.
That's equally true of "Jane Eyre, " which was shot by Mr. Goldman with equal virtuosity, though in a very different visual style.
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'There is concern over the uncertain state of President Yeltsin's health, at the continuing extremely high level of criminal penetration of the financial system and over the impact on Russia of the Asian financial crisis, ' Mr. Goldman said.
The lamentable performance of Mr Paulson in particular, and Mr Obama's wish to distance himself from Wall Street's high profile ethical and business failures, mean that he is unlikely to hire Goldman alumni with the same enthusiasm that Mr Bush had although Goldman's employees have been enthusiastic donors to Mr Obama's campaign and now his inauguration expenses.
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As one wag quipped, the two appointments represent both ends of the spectrum: JPMorgan Chase, where Mr Daley worked, and Goldman Sachs, to which Mr Sperling was a consultant.
Mr Ramos from Goldman Sachs said the elevated inflation figures and lacklustre growth rates were the symptoms of a policy mix based on government intervention.
One involved Mr Gupta explicitly providing insider information to Mr Rajaratnam about Goldman Sachs potentially buying AIG although since neither a deal nor trading followed, this was not in itself illegal.
Goldman placed Mr. Tourre on unpaid leave in late 2011, and he returned to school.
Frantic rescue efforts failed, including a phone call by Mr. Corzine to Goldman President Gary D.
Allegiance to Mr. Blankfein among Goldman investors will be tested Friday at the company's annual meeting in lower Manhattan.
With Mr Corzine sidelined, Goldman hopes for a smoother future under a top management team whose members trust one another.
By 1998, the group that Mr Flowers headed at Goldman, which advised financial institutions, was producing as much as one-third of the firm's investment-banking revenues.
At Goldman, Mr. Blankfein has been besieged since the financial crisis.
A. at Wharton, Mr. Byrd joined Goldman Sachs and went to London and Paris to work in mergers and acquisitions, later getting involved in private equity.
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Prosecutors have said Mr. Gupta improperly told Mr. Rajaratnam that Goldman was losing money in that quarter, allowing him to sell millions of dollars worth of Goldman stock before the share price dropped.
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Goldman fired Mr. Taylor on Dec. 21, 2007, for "alleged conduct related to inappropriately large proprietary futures positions in a firm trading account, " the bank wrote in a filing submitted to the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, which oversees broker-dealers.
Mr Birnbaum initially tried to frighten Mr Paulson a Goldman client into backing off from his audacious trade, but when the fund manager held firm Mr Birnbaum was persuaded of its merits and began to copy him instead.
Mr. Whitehead is what Goldman partners call a "credentializer, " someone whose political opinions matter at the firm.
After the SEC filed charges, Democrats called Mr. Blankfein and other Goldman executives to Capitol Hill for days of televised hearings.
Under Mr Bush, working for Goldman Sachs, the greatest of Wall Street's then-great investment banks, seemed in itself to be a qualification for high office.
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According to a Goldman partner, Mr Corzine briefly kept from Mr Paulson initial discussions he had about possible mergers with two banks, Chase Manhattan and J.
Goldman's Mr Popielas thinks that 30% of companies could disappear in the next three to five years, through mergers, via Protector's intervention or by ceasing to write new business.
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Goldman's Mr. Borsch said the rebate totals were lower than he had originally projected, and he attributed the difference to "proactive steps the companies have taken, " including scaled-back premiums and targeted refunds to clients.
Mr Cook said at the Goldman Sachs technology investor conference in San Francisco on Tuesday that he and the Apple board were "seriously" considering new ways to return cash to shareholders, including the Greenlight proposal, which he then called "creative".
Before its shift from a partnership to a public company more than a decade ago (and two years before Mr. Smith came aboard as an intern), Goldman might have embodied the customer-first ideal Mr. Smith so fancies.
Those charges allege that Mr Gupta divulged secret information about Goldman Sachs, which Rajaratnam traded on.
Nevertheless, the open discussions inside Goldman about life after Mr. Blankfein show that the firm is being rattled by the turmoil.
The Securities and Exchange Commission didn't file a fraud case because Goldman failed to disclose Mr. Paulson's identity to potential counterparties.
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