But from the reading of these emails and the information that this Subcommittee has uncovered, there is no doubt their b...
Let us assume that the agency didn't know.
In other words, in a synthetic CDO, you don't really have any ownership. You are just betting on the fortunes of that CD...
Explain, perhaps for the benefit of the Subcommittee and for the record, what is a synthetic CDO?
Well, a lot of these things are fairly complicated, Mr.
Thank you for being here, Mr. Blankfein.
There's no doubt their behavior was unethical.
And I know you are not a charitable organization. I know why you are in business.
Should it have been disclosed?
But you didn't make any direct home loan mortgages.
How do you think the community banks are doing, Mr. Blankfein? I think they are doing pretty poorly.
What about community banks? Any involvement with them?
Maybe you could--do you think that, in the minds of a lot of Americans, that there is a real contradiction there?
How does that differ from going out to Caesar's Palace to the sports book and making a wager on the outcome of an athlet...
The 2011 budget includes enough funding for 1 mile of physical fence. We need more than that, do we not?
I think we need more Border Patrol. I hope that you will ask for them. Congress will provide them if you do.
I think our policy should be to expand it.
if the President has constitutional authority to execute a war, it may not be a good idea or good policy not to communic...
