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		<title>Goldman Sachs sues ex employees over move to Credit Suisse; Euro at nearly 9 month low; Germany&#8217;s Merkel on Greece: &#8220;It’s a scandal if it turned out that the same banks that brought us to the brink of the abyss helped fake the statistics&#8221;;  Top 400 U.S. earning households averaged $345 million per IRS</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2010 13:02:56 +0000</pubDate>
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Goldman Sachs Sues 7 Managers for Credit Suisse Move
Dollar Rally Drives Euro Near Nine-Month Low as Metals Retreat
Merkel Slams Greek ‘Scandal’ as Goldman Role Examined
Top Earners Averaged $345 Million in 2007, IRS Says
Junk Bonds Erase 2010 Loss as Spreads Fall Most Since September


Goldman Sachs Sues 7 Managers for Credit Suisse Move &#8211; Bloomberg

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		<title>Toning it down apparently doesn&#8217;t begin at home: Goldman Sachs CEO&#8217;s missus said to behave obnoxiously at a big Hamptons designer sale, acting all impatient and causing a fuss; She didn&#8217;t want to wait in line &#8220;people who spend less money than me&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2009 12:23:35 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Goldman Sachs]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Big designer sales often bring out the obnoxious side of some people, and the annual Super Saturday in the Hamptons sounds like it was no exception.  According to Page Six, Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein&#8217;s wife didn&#8217;t think she should have to wait in line with the unwashed masses, making a big stink.  Not exactly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Robin Hood Foundation raised $73M with $50M help from George Soros; Hedge funds hug their gold; $JPM and $C take Harrah&#8217;s Debt swap fees in junk bonds; Ex-Dallas Cowboy turned money manager busted by SEC for allegedly defrauding investors</title>
		<link>http://files.wallstreetfolly.com/wordpress/2009/05/robin-hood-foundation-raised-73m-with-50m-help-from-george-soros-hedge-funds-hug-their-gold-jpm-and-c-take-harrahs-debt-swap-fees-in-junk-bonds-ex-dallas-cowboy-turned-money-manager-busted-by/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2009 13:11:00 +0000</pubDate>
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Soros Helps New York Charity Raise Record With $50 Million Gift
- Bloomberg

Billionaire hedge-fund manager George Soros pledged $50 million to the Robin Hood Foundation at its New York gala dinner, helping the charity raise a record sum last night to help the city



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		<title>Do over in hard times: UK bankers and other high rollers with big divorce settlements looking for relief as their net worths shrink</title>
		<link>http://files.wallstreetfolly.com/wordpress/2009/03/do-over-in-hard-times-uk-bankers-and-other-high-rollers-with-big-divorce-settlements-looking-for-relief-as-their-net-worths-shrink/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2009 13:36:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Should a divorced spouse with a fat settlement share in their former spouse&#39;s pain now that they&#39;ve fallen on hard times and their net worths have shrunk?&#0160; Some bankers and others wealthy types who have agreed to large settlements are looking for do overs.&#0160; Bloomberg looks at some UK cases:


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		<title>Proposed NY Millionalre&#8217;s tax will hit more than millionaires; Was Joe Biden&#8217;s daughter filmed snorting coke?; Anyone surprised?: $GM, Chrysler &#8220;not there yet&#8221; per Obama</title>
		<link>http://files.wallstreetfolly.com/wordpress/2009/03/proposed-ny-millionalres-tax-will-hit-more-than-millionaires-was-joe-bidens-daughter-filmed-snorting-coke-anyone-surprised-gm-chrysler-not-there-yet-per-obama/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Mar 2009 15:36:00 +0000</pubDate>
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Albany Agrees on a Plan to Raise Taxes on Top Earners
Obama says GM, Chrysler &#34;not there yet&#34;
Biden Coke Shock



Albany Agrees on a Plan to Raise Taxes on Top Earners
- New York Times

Gov. David A. Paterson and leaders of the Legislature have reached a deal to temporarily raise taxes on New York’s highest earners in order [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Goldman Sachs extending loans to employee to help them meet capital calls in internal Goldman fund investments</title>
		<link>http://files.wallstreetfolly.com/wordpress/2009/03/goldman-sachs-extending-loans-to-employee-to-help-them-meet-capital-calls-in-internal-goldman-fund-investments/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2009 12:55:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When you think of Goldman Sachs, you think of the vast wealth of its employees.&#0160; But many of those employees put boatloads of their money into Goldman&#39;s own funds.&#0160; Now many of those funds, focusing on real estate and private equity, are way under water, and the employees are getting capital calls.&#0160; To help them [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Prince Alwaleed: I&#8217;m still a billionaire!; Updated charts of his U.S. stock holdings</title>
		<link>http://files.wallstreetfolly.com/wordpress/2009/03/prince-alwaleed-im-still-a-billionaire-updated-charts-of-his-us-stock-holdings/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2009 13:22:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lest you should think otherwise, Saudi Prince Alwaleed is still a billionaire.&#0160; That fact was trumpeted in a Kingdom Holdings press release citing the latest Forbes list of billionaires where he&#39;s&#0160; #22 with a estimated net worth of $13.3 billion.&#0160; But like everyone else, he&#39;s taken a lot of lumps, especially in his U.S. holdings [...]]]></description>
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		<title>No presidential pardon for Mike Milken disappoints some who point to his philanthropy, but others think it was the right decision; The Marc Rich factor</title>
		<link>http://files.wallstreetfolly.com/wordpress/2009/02/no-presidential-pardon-for-mike-milken-disappoints-some-who-point-to-his-philanthropy-but-others-think-it-was-the-right-decision-the-marc-rich-factor/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Feb 2009 13:44:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Because of his philanthropy over the last 15 years or so, some thought that former Drexel junk bond king Mike Milken would have a good shot at getting a pardon from President Bush before he left office.&#0160; But it didn&#39;t happen.&#0160; Alan Dershowitz thinks it&#39;s because of Marc Rich&#8230;.


&#34;You could find very few people in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mile high with Dan Loeb: Gawker profiles the outspoken hedge fund manager after he ferries two femme bloggers home from Davos on his private jet</title>
		<link>http://files.wallstreetfolly.com/wordpress/2009/02/mile-high-with-dan-loeb-gawker-profiles-the-outspoken-hedge-fund-manager-after-he-ferries-two-femme-bloggers-home-from-davos-on-his-private-jet/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2009 13:10:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Outspoken Third Point leader Dan Loeb was profiled by Gawker, which seemed to have never heard of him before from reading their piece.&#0160; Seems that &#34;widely hated surfer, yoga enthusiast, and hedge-fund manager&#34; Dan flew a couple of lady bloggers home from Davos in his private jet.&#0160; One of them, Julia Allison, posted pix on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The size of your units matters in trading prowess&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jan 2009 14:46:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The size of your right hand digital units, that is&#8230;..



Researchers at Cambridge university have found a strong statistical link between the profitability of male traders at a London bank and the ratio of index to ring fingers on their right hand. The longer the fourth digit in relation to the second, the more money the [...]]]></description>
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