Quote from The Kin2:
Hank stole a printing press from Ben and lent it to Goldman Sachs. There is a reason why GS had a blowout quarter while every other financial crashed hard: fraud or they are really just that good.
Quote from Cutten:
Maybe they just realised real estate/subprime was a disaster waiting to happen? This required no special genius - half of ET was proclaiming for the last 2 years that real estate would have a historic bear market.
The real question is how come the rest of the street got caught so badly. The answer is that they are run by managers & office politicians, not traders (who have mostly left to form hedge funds if they are any good).