Quote from Logic:
Goldman only became a bank at the beginning of the financial crisis to get government banking. They don't need banking operations for their business model, so they'll just stop being a bank to get around the regulations.
Yeah but there goes the Interest Free loans they use to make money. Even a Caveman can make money if you can borrow at 0% and trade free money.
If you read the Rolling Stone article about Obama you will note that he pretty much pushed Volcker aside and pretty much ignored his advice.
I suspect Obama thought he could get away with letting Wall street continue to do business as usual and to add insult to injury let them become banks, get 0% cash loans and make record profits.
That was spitting in the face of all Americans everytime GS announces bigger and better profits and bigger and better bonuses while no one is loaning cash for productive activity since it was tied up trading the markets.
When Scott Brown won, it woke up congress and Obama to the reality that Lobbyist cash is worthless if it does not guarantee another election.
So now Thanks to the Scott Brown win it is forcing Obama/Congress to Break some promises made to lobbyists and now he is forced to take Volcker's advice.
That Token banktax was a bullshit and stupid idea, it was just going to let Wallstreet off the hook since they can just pass the tax down to the consumer/industry.
Now Obama is going to have to die by the sword or stand up and do what he promised.
BTW, GS CDS spreads are up again which means there are concerns if GS no longer has access to unlimited 0% money.
And Insiders have been unloading GS stock, They are paying themselves huge bonuses and unloading stock for a reason.