[lbo-talk] Re: Goldman Sachs walks on water;

Jordan Hayes jmhayes at j-o-r-d-a-n.com
Sun Dec 16 12:19:18 PST 2007



> Apparently not everyone on Wall Street shared Goldman's view.

Indeed. One issue that hasn't gotten much play is how much of the running total that you are keeping of write-downs and loss announcements was from leveraged trading losses (especially derivatives) and thus, probably not germane to the underlying housing and credit market issues. An index like the ABX is zero-sum, so Goldman taking money from Merrill doesn't seem interesting to me.

/jordan



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