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Carl Levin

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Carl Levin was a prominent American politician who served as a United States Senator from Michigan from 1979 until 2015. A member of the Democratic Party, Levin was known for his leadership on the Senate Armed Services Committee, where he played a key role in shaping U.S. military policy and defense spending. Throughout his tenure, he was an advocate for various issues, including environmental protection and consumer rights.

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Nov 19, 2014

You enter contracts which require people to increase the queue.

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Nov 19, 2014

While there is no explicit scenario for environmental [or] catastrophic damage for any business line or corporate area, exposure related to participation in commodity markets primarily resides in the damage to physical assets risk category…

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Nov 19, 2014

Goldman's commodities trading arm is an exclusive marketing and sales agent for the coal produced by those mines.

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Nov 19, 2014

So there is no doubt, since Wentworth is a shell, that if anything goes wrong it is Morgan Stanley that is on the hook.

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Nov 19, 2014

Well, were you horrified by what you saw?

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Nov 19, 2014

You know that. You are a business person, a very active business----

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Nov 19, 2014

Well, at least two of the three of these banks apparently are planning to exit the field, although somewhat gradually, that has caused so much concern, which has grown so vast, which has created such risk and which creates such potential…

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Nov 19, 2014

So is it fair to say these basically followed a joint Goldman-Metro decision?

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Nov 19, 2014

So the Chinese Wall Policy, even if it is not a tissue paper, is a one-way information barrier.

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Nov 19, 2014

I just do not think we can rely on a private policy to make sure that this does not happen.

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Nov 19, 2014

Do you think when Goldman runs a company the way it did--buys the company.

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Nov 19, 2014

The result was the following: That the line, the queue, to remove metal from these warehouses went from 40 days to 665 days.

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Nov 19, 2014

If they wanted the benefit of our economics in this deal, then they had to do that, yes.

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Nov 19, 2014

So it was a joint decision to go ahead.

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Nov 19, 2014

I take it you are not going to answer the question as to whether or not it was important to you that they cancel the warrants.

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Nov 19, 2014

in 2010 the Federal Reserve Commodities Team undertook a 2-year in-depth review of the physical commodity activities being conducted under the grandfather clause at Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley.

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Nov 19, 2014

too many Wall Street financial holding companies are ready and willing to engage in market manipulations and will do so until they are caught.

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Nov 19, 2014

One of the reasons that JPMorgan wanted to get into the power plant business was to increase its access to important market information.

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Nov 19, 2014

Does that type of shell arrangement increase the chances that Morgan Stanley would be held liable if that plant were struck by a disaster?

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Nov 19, 2014

Exactly. It was important to you, however, that they move to another warehouse. Is that correct?

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Nov 19, 2014

Morgan Stanley has been an active trader in the natural gas market for decades.

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Nov 19, 2014

I believe we have got to have regulations that make that Chinese wall real, in law.

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