Charles Schwab’s four-day Impact Conference, which ended this morning, describes itself as “the premier event” for registered investment advisors. That means it’s the type of place where Hank Paulson will give a keynote presentation to balding financial advisors “of a certain age,” with “a bunch of paunchy middle-aged men roaming the expo hall,” Read More
“A fiercely competitive man, he is also an avid conservationist who freaked out when birds would fly into the glass windows of 85 Broad.” – Vanity Fair on Goldman Sachs’ ex-CEO Hank Paulson this January.
“As he speaks, a bird thuds straight into his glass-fronted office at North Colonnade, Canary Wharf. ‘Boy, that’s gotta Read More
Apparently, Hank Paulson is still pushing On The Brink, his 477-page dry heave of a memoir–”a portrait of the bureaucrat as a nauseous and drowsy man,” as our own Max Abelson put it. So while Timothy Geithner is busy justifying the bailouts to Vogue readers, Mr. Paulson was at N.Y.U. last night Read More
On Good Morning America this morning, former Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson defended himself against the charge that he unduly gave a golden egg to his former company, Goldman Sachs, when the government paid the company 100 cents on the dollar for its AIG debt.
“In every situation–and particularly with regard to AIG–I cared about Read More
“It’s just a building when it comes right down to it,” 91-year-old George Doty, the former Goldman Sachs managing partner, said last month. His firm had just started moving out of 85 Broad Street, its headquarters for the past three decades, and into a shiny new West Street tower. “Buildings, to me, don’t have a Read More
Henry Paulson Jr., the chairman and chief executive of Goldman Sachs, likes snakes.
“I like to hold them and look at them,” the banker and amateur herpetologist once told an interviewer.
It was perhaps tempting, then, after President George W. Bush on May 30 declared Mr. Paulson his choice to be the next Secretary of Read More
Henry Paulson Jr., the chairman and chief executive of Goldman Sachs, likes snakes.
“I like to hold them and look at them,” the banker and amateur herpetologist once told an interviewer.
It was perhaps tempting, then, after President George W. Bush on May 30 declared Mr. Paulson his choice to be the next Secretary Read More
Goldman Sachs: The Culture of Success , by Lisa Endlich. Alfred A. Knopf, 319 pages, $27.50.
Recently, I complained to a partner of Goldman, Sachs & Company about the treatment I had received many years before at the hands of the firm’s press spokesman, who would never return a call except after a deadline had Read More
