SEC charges GS with fraud

Quote from asiaprop:

I never claimed they were not in trouble (read my post above). The point I argue is that GS was in the LEAST trouble of all banks PLUS they were long time out of any trouble when the AIG question arose.

Please read carefully before you jump to conclusions.

Ok..fair enough
 
Anaconda is talking about 30 million NOT to just Goldman Sachs. Look to his post again.

Asiaprop, I do not hate Goldman Sachs like you say. I am just curious how the money works with the big banks. No bet for me in this, I just want to know how this work. (But I think Goldman Sachs know they buy the bundle of JUNK (in the beginning), and take the AAA rating, then sell this)
You say Goldman Sach will be ok with no AIG bailout. So what you are saying is the Goldman Sach money from AIG ($12 billion?) is no big deal if they do not get this. Ok.
They hedge the bet with AIG with swaps to pay them if AIG default. true?
So if no AIG bailout happen, I am saying (this other swaps/banks) that have to pay Goldman if AIG fail, can not pay Goldman if AIG fail. You understand my question?
 
LOL. The rube has fallen off of his turnip truck again and back onto this thread.

During last Tuesday's conference call, Goldman's attorney (Greg Palm) said:

"Our overall losses in connection with the transaction [ABACUS 2007-AC1] exceeded $100 million including $83 million with respect to the retained long position. We certainly had no incentive to structure a transaction designed to lose money"

Does Syprik the rube understand what the word "overall" means? Apparently not. It means "covering or including everything."

Had Goldman been hedged specifically against their long slice of ABACUS 2007-AC1, Palm's statement would have been fraud because it would have been false and made during a conference call with intent to deceive.

EVERYONE knows Goldman was short subprime but that doesn't mean this particular long was hedged. And why would Goldman misrepresent that they lost money when the SEC's case against them is so weak?

So sad that Syprik feels the need to keep coming back to dig himself deeper...


Quote from Syprik:

Looks like pollution still spews from the bowels of the clueless.

Some braille for the blind:

Goldman has PR'ed that is lost $90million on AC-1. This is a completely factual and legal PR statement, as far as I'm concerned. Never have I stated otherwise. What is incredibly disingenuous about this slick GS statement and fools most laymen, including trader666, is that per "legal" balance sheet representation, a synthetic CDO transaction of this type will split the offset hedge as a SEPERATE 2nd transaction, even though the CDS/ABX etc selections will often be worked out by the CDO manager& middle-office risk manager handling the Abacus. Does one understand the significance of that?

Ex for laymen: CPO goes LONG 100 FDAX with Broker #1 CQG. Hedge SHORT 125 ES with Broker #2 MFGlobal. Two separate "legal" transactions.

PR to CPO clients: We lost on FDAX long with CQG.

Completely factual, but disingenuous without knowing the outcome of the short hedge.

The purpose of providing links to articles such as that by Morgenson (http://www.nytimes.com/ref/business/bio-morgenson.html) was to show that Goldman internal prop decision making was short RMBS biased for quite some time prior to AC-1 finalization. Perfectly legal, perfectly normal. Once again, there is very little to zero probability that GS middle-office would have allowed that particular AC-1 0-9% equity (1st pool to get zero'd on a default) to go naked knowing full-well how GS was positioning themselves with similar/same Baa2 tranches. Goldman was likely looking to offload that tranche on red alert, but when the spreads started to split only a few months after AC-1 signed off, they got caught holding the bag.

There is no inside scope. Just logic and a basic fundamental understanding how this market works.

Sad how so many loud-mouth imbeciles pollute so many threads here on ET with piss-poor insight. Nitro, I don't know how you have the patience (indicative of post count) to deal with these clowns.

For those that have genuine interest in learning more about this market, recommend stopping by places like Wilmott, NucPhy, NakedCapitalism etc. Do not recommend the loose-with-fact artists like those @ ZeroHedge.
 
Quote from Trader666:

Try $12.9 billion.

Try reading comprehension but thanks for pinpointing the exact number that is appropriated to Goldman Sachs alone. Would like to add anything else?

You might want to stop arguing about Goldman losses, as the CDS payout for a particular CDO are several times more than the actual equity piece of it. CDS is the profit, not the CDO payments, and the CDS could only be fulfilled via AIG bailout.
 
Quote from asiaprop:

its ok, there is a reason why 95% of "traders" lose out.

So is your lack of reading comprehension a sign that you're part of the 95%? Or you have not even gotten a chance to try due to your learning disability?
 
LOL Gotcha!!! I was responding to your prior post where you admitted your mistake but you deleted it. And now you pretend I need reading comprehension? You're so full of crap :p

Quote from Anaconda:

Try reading comprehension

Your deleted post:

Quote from Anaconda:

Boo hoo hoo. Do you need a tissue? Or a Maxipad? Ok so $12.9 billion, my mistake. It's still quite a lot of money just via the AIG route. I am not even counting TALF or fed discount window (which is almost free money, btw)

Are you going to say anything of substance or are you gonna keep flaming & crying? At least Trader666 was able to properly correct me, apparently he is not 100% troll, just 90-95% or so.
I know you do not work for GS, but you may be a contracted consultant by them and are paid to kiss their ass. Just come clean, it might actually help your argument.
 
lol, a "contracted consultant". This guy so clearly displays he has never worked for any serious financial firm nor does he understand the issue under discussion other than what he picked up on some freebie websites. What a monkey. I am out of here, getting too hilarious.

Quote from Trader666:

LOL Gotcha!!! I was responding to your prior post where you admitted your mistake but you deleted it. And now you pretend I need reading comprehension? You're so full of crap :p



Your deleted post:
 
TARP funds: $10 billion plus
AIG securities lending unit: $4.6 billion
Maiden Lane III: $5.8 billion
AIG collateral: $2.5 billion

Total: $22.9 billion plus
money given out to GS

Looks to me like those bonuses are my business!
 
"Our overall losses in connection with the transaction [ABACUS 2007-AC1] exceeded $100 million including $83 million with respect to the retained long position. We certainly had no incentive to structure a transaction designed to lose money"

Thanks again for clarifying the ****overall CDO loss **** = transaction #1.

Do you have counter-evidence that GS did not lock in CDS on the following Baa2's on or after April 27, 2007 in separate balance sheet transactions (I'll give you a hint, it was contained to only 2 separate CDS):

CMLTI 2007-WFH1 M9
CARR 2006-FRE2 M8
MSAC 2007- NC1 B2
MSAC 2007- HE1 B2
ABSHE 2006- HE9 M9

To name just 5 of 14 (these 14 = 15.5% of AC-1) RMBS relevant to this discussion.

Before you strike out once again, keep in mind AIG or Deutsche Bank or ??? has released it's CDS counter-party position data after being subpoenaed. These documents are in pdf format. I'll give you the opportunity to prove you have a shred of competence that you allude to have in this space and can break down these transactions. I gave you the primer key to work with.

I'm back in a "toy with the troll" mood. You are just too easy a target. For those that already know, please do not help him. This clown will be put in his place.
 
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