Goldman Sachs

Each year, governments spend hundreds of billions of dollars addressing social problems. However, in most cases, we have no idea how effective this spending is. Performance is hardly assessed, and measurement tends to focus on tracking the number of people served and the amount of service provided rather than the outcomes that are achieved. Governments around the world are starting to recognize the need for a new approach to social services that places its emphasis on identifying innovative…

AIG’s main counterparties included: Goldman Sachs, Société Générale, Deutsche Bank, Barclays, Merrill Lynch, Bank of America, UBS, BNP Paribas, HSBC, and Calyon (Crédit Agricole) (Katz, J., 2010). The highest paid counterpart was Goldman Sachs who received $12.9 billion and Société Générale followed with $11.9 billion. Overall, ten AIG counterparties received a grand total of $72.2 billion…

School is a necessary system worldwide to invest in a society 's future. The primary argument as to why educational institutions should be free in the U.S. is not to give everyone the equal opportunity to education as stated by Lawrence (a professor of History emeritus at SUNY Albany) although it is one of the reasons, the primary reason is to increase the number of educated workers to hopefully improve our economy. It is stated that an “educated work force has become an essential component of…

The 1980’s the United States was in terrible shape. This was the worst of the American economy, since the Great Depression. 1980 was a renewed push for capitalism and business. The economy resumed upward. A New York Times article had said that the flushness of money and growth during these years created a drug culture. The film inside jobs talked about how many people were using cocaine and hired hookers since the economy was doing well, but then it crashed. In 1987 the stock market…

Hello, I’m certainly not trying to roast anyone—just sharing some perspective. So with that, most of the Dow surge is driven by J.P. Morgan and Goldman Sachs, on the promise of less financial regulations, notably the repeal of Dodd-Frank. And what about the massive Bond sell-off? The spike in yields marked the largest two-week rise since November 2001. Expectations the Trump administration will move to sharply cut taxes and increase spending, making for larger deficits, and higher interests…

Both articles “If You’re a Market Bull Then Root for These Teams in the Super Bowl” published by Fortune and “Does the World Cup predict stock markets?” published by The Telegraph, discus the correlation between the winners of major sport championships and the following returns in the stock market. The article in Fortune deliberates how the stock markets will perform based on the “Super Bowl predictor”—a theory popularized by the stock analyst Robert H. Stovall, after sportswriter Leonard…

a private-equity fund he started in 2007. Admiral Capital focuses on real estate and operates in the hundreds of millions of dollars. Based on the success of Admiral Capital, Robinson recently opened a second private-equity fund with the same Goldman Sachs partner who helped him on the first…

and large government entitlements. Greece partnered with widely-respected U.S. investment banking firm Goldman Sachs to prepare for qualification in the Euro membership club. Their partnership turned into a classic case of predatory lending and unethical complicity that ended up doing the Greek economy significant harm. Instead of helping Greece make needed financial reforms, Goldman Sachs secretly loaned Greece 2.8 billion Euro and disguised it as an off-books currency transaction. This…

as follows: • Lower employment rate through creating more jobs Many employers, to avoid paying eligible employees the overtime payment, would prefer to hire additional employees (full- or part-timers). According to National Retail Federation, Goldman Sachs, and the Economic Policy Institute, at least 120,000 new jobs would be created. • Stronger overtime protections for exempted workers such as executives, professionals, and administrative Raising the cutoff point of eligibility would make it…

drip of revelations about his campaign's interactions with Russia, the trading frenzy has stalled. Overall, revenue from big banks' juggernaut bond-trading divisions probably tumbled 16% in the second quarter from a year earlier, according to Goldman Sachs Group Inc.…