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"Why The World Is Better Than You Think"

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For all zombied Goldman clients who are still not sick of guaranteeding the firm profitable trading days 63 out of 63 days each quarter, this is the conference call for you. And yes, this is real.

We can't wait for the next call in the sequence: "Why Goldman Is Much Less Of A Criminal Than You Think"




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Tue, 05/11/2010 - 17:32 | Link to Comment Recovery3000
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My dealer never makes me fill out a form.

Tue, 05/11/2010 - 19:07 | Link to Comment akak
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But how does one sign this contract with one's own blood, when it can only be completed online?

Or has GS now invented "paper blood" too?

 

(I wonder, can I pay them with a "paper firstborn" as well?)

Tue, 05/11/2010 - 23:08 | Link to Comment Alienated Serf
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e-blood to buy an ipad.  or maxi pad

Tue, 05/11/2010 - 17:35 | Link to Comment chet
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"Thank you for joining us.  The first thing we need to do on this conference call is to clarify the title.  It was supposed to read:

'Why OUR world is better than you think'

Sorry about that."

Tue, 05/11/2010 - 17:49 | Link to Comment The Alarmist
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No, no, no.  The presumption is that everything that is is already theirs.  Back to work, slave!

 

Tue, 05/11/2010 - 17:39 | Link to Comment J.B. Books
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Tyler - how is Marla?

Tue, 05/11/2010 - 17:41 | Link to Comment Cheeky Bastard
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The rainbow tastes like puppy dogs.

See Goldman Sachs, I, too, can say totally random things that make no sense.

Tue, 05/11/2010 - 17:43 | Link to Comment Argonaught
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I like your unicorn ranch.

Tue, 05/11/2010 - 18:20 | Link to Comment malusDiaz
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I've got Tulips for sale!

Along with Good Feelings and Sunsets!

 

One metric fuck ton for anything you happen to have.

 

I'll give you two of them for a Clear Crystal Ball!

Tue, 05/11/2010 - 18:27 | Link to Comment Selah
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Tulips... Bitches!!!

 

Tue, 05/11/2010 - 23:11 | Link to Comment Alienated Serf
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all the above replies to cheeky are actual titles to Thomas Friedman articles.

Tue, 05/11/2010 - 21:08 | Link to Comment moneymutt
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Its like Goldman Sacs has change their logo to a pic of Jim Cramer...Cramer Sacs...nice branding guys...

Tue, 05/11/2010 - 17:45 | Link to Comment Common_Cents22
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Doing God's work makes the world a better place, for partners.

 

Why would any customer do any business w/ GS is beyond me.  JPM for that matter.

 

63 for 63 is approaching Madoff numbers but not quite.  Madoff was 63 wins for 0 at bats.

Tue, 05/11/2010 - 21:12 | Link to Comment akak
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You know, GS may be doing "God's work" as they claim --- but they never told us just WHICH god it is whose work they are doing!

I am guessing Shiva.

Tue, 05/11/2010 - 21:48 | Link to Comment Lower Class Elite
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More like Kali Ma.  That bitch is kuh-RAZY!

Tue, 05/11/2010 - 22:59 | Link to Comment abc123
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because it's sexy to be eaten by THE vampire... 

Tue, 05/11/2010 - 17:45 | Link to Comment PunkSgt
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How do I sign up?

Tue, 05/11/2010 - 17:48 | Link to Comment Cheeky Bastard
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creat fictional e-mail adress

GS contact: David Viniar 

Company: some-bucket-shop-from-Missouri

 

Tue, 05/11/2010 - 18:09 | Link to Comment ReallySparky
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Hey there Cheeky, don't pick on us hard headed, show-me state mules. 

Tue, 05/11/2010 - 22:35 | Link to Comment ZeroPower
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Punk:
Youre kidding right? (Almost) no Main Streeters allowed.

Tue, 05/11/2010 - 18:02 | Link to Comment Mr Lennon Hendrix
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Where do you keep the drugs, Goldman?

Tue, 05/11/2010 - 20:27 | Link to Comment Fazzie
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 I cant say where they keep the stash now, I can only hope that soon, they will have to keester them into a club Fed facility after multiple convictions based on evidence uncovered by the SEC and a vigorous prosecution with no deals by a US attorney.

  (sarcasm off) Its a shame when a situation like that lives only in fantasy, when it would merely the result of our govt officials just doing their sworn duty and haeven forbid, actually earn a paycheck.

Tue, 05/11/2010 - 18:04 | Link to Comment johngaltfla
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All we need now is Lord Blankfein to fly in on a purple unicorn pooping Skittles and the "trip" would be complete.

Tue, 05/11/2010 - 18:18 | Link to Comment knukles
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Daddy, what color does he poop?

Tue, 05/11/2010 - 19:20 | Link to Comment Privatus
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All the colors of the rainbow, son. All the colors of the rainbow.

Tue, 05/11/2010 - 19:54 | Link to Comment knukles
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(Sigh.....)
Why does Lord Blankfiend always have that funny smile, Daddy?  He must be very happy.
Daddy, maybe some day can I poop rainbows  over everybody too? 
(Sigh.....)  

Tue, 05/11/2010 - 18:05 | Link to Comment The Alarmist
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One might assume that Lord Blankfein was showing a little humility when he uttered that the Squid was doing God's work. The presumption is that the Squid are God's servants, but there are a couple of possibilities to be considered:

God is actually now the servant to the Squid (no doubt after a Squid arranged leveraged financing of Heaven to unlock the intrinsic value of the Pearly Gates), but the Squid is doing his work for some reason or another (Perhaps they think they can do it better?).

It could also be that the Squid is the earthly embodiment of Satan, who after all is by the dint of his station as the antithesis of God thereby also doing God's work.

In any event, the presumption is that the world ... nay, the Universe, belongs to the Squid, and that is why it is better than you might think.

 

Tue, 05/11/2010 - 18:35 | Link to Comment Problem Is
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"Lord Blankfein was showing a little humility when he uttered that the Squid was doing God's work."

But God Got Even
As Lloyd B. God whined that statement out in a nasally, midget-y, Morey Amsterdam voice that annoys the ear like a mosquito whine...

How can you take a guy seriously as a "Titan of Industry" when he sounds like a 5 foot vaudevillian carnival freak show  barker hawking the 3 Card Monte stand?

Tue, 05/11/2010 - 22:06 | Link to Comment hbjork1
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Problem is:

You got it.  I have wasted enough time listening to his testimony before Congress.  

What could he possibly say that I would possibly believe.  I have other ways to use my precious time, like have a nightcap and go to bed. 

He demonstrates who he is by his works.  IMO, if this is actually going to be Blankfein, he is runnig scared.

Tue, 05/11/2010 - 23:16 | Link to Comment Alienated Serf
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Lloyd's nasally voice is proof that GS is a meritocracy of thieves.  There is no way someone who sounds like kermit the frog on helium gets CEO unless he can rake in the bux.

Tue, 05/11/2010 - 18:06 | Link to Comment Gordon_Gekko
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Meanwhile EUR slips down to 1.2624.

Tue, 05/11/2010 - 18:07 | Link to Comment Agent P
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I like how you selected Greece from the dropdown before grabbing the screenshot...nice touch!

Tue, 05/11/2010 - 18:08 | Link to Comment Zombie Investor
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"profitable trading days 63 out of 63 days each quarter"

What I'd like to know is if GS/JPM made money last Thursday?

Tue, 05/11/2010 - 18:08 | Link to Comment hambone
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LMFAO - even while gold goes straight up against the dollar moving parabollic against euro, someone didn't seem to notice that our money is being turned into 2nd rate dogsh#t (no, really, there is 1st rate dogsh#t if you feed your dog the good stuff...but I digress). 

Folks, if this is a ball game what inning are we in and how do you win???

Tue, 05/11/2010 - 18:09 | Link to Comment The Alarmist
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Bottom of the ninth, with two outs and two strikes.  You win by walking away and not playing.

 

Tue, 05/11/2010 - 18:14 | Link to Comment ratava
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speaking in ball game terms, we are playing the banana league and banksters got a picture of refs kids in their wallet

Tue, 05/11/2010 - 18:42 | Link to Comment hedgeless_horseman
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It's more like Star Wars, and we are somewhere late in the Phantom Menace episode.

The world is better than you think, until you run out of Mr. Pibb and popcorn.

Wed, 05/12/2010 - 02:39 | Link to Comment hidingfromhelis
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Now this is what first rate dogsh#t is:

Pedro: Man, what is in this shit, man?
Man Stoner: Mostly Maui Waui man, but it's got some Labrador in it.
Pedro: What's Labrador?
Man Stoner: It's dog shit.
Pedro: What?
Man Stoner: Yeah, my dog ate my stash, man.
Pedro: Yeah?
Man Stoner: I had it on the table and the little motherfucker ate it, man. Then I had to follow him around with a little baggie for three days, man, before I got it back. Really blew the dog's mind, ya know?
Pedro: You mean we're smokin' dog shit, man?
Man Stoner: Gets ya high, don't it?
[Song, "Rockin' Robin" plays... ]
Man Stoner: I think it's even better than before, you know?
Pedro: Uhhh, I wonder what Great Dane tastes like, man.

Tue, 05/11/2010 - 18:11 | Link to Comment akak
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"Why the world is better than you think."

To which world are they referring?

Has Goldman Sucks now extended their grip to the inhabitants of other planets too?

Tue, 05/11/2010 - 18:16 | Link to Comment knukles
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TYPO...

Supposed to be
"My" World is better than you think.

Tue, 05/11/2010 - 20:40 | Link to Comment Trial of the Pyx
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careful

 

you just may be getting a little too close to the truth

Wed, 05/12/2010 - 03:25 | Link to Comment hidingfromhelis
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Resistance is futile; we will assimilate you(r wealth.)

Tue, 05/11/2010 - 18:11 | Link to Comment ratava
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europeans just do not consume enough Valium to make it in the new normal

Tue, 05/11/2010 - 18:14 | Link to Comment Wannabee
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More Prozac please....

Tue, 05/11/2010 - 18:15 | Link to Comment knukles
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Does it really get better if we register more than once?

 

Quit making the captcha questions so hard.  No one from the ECB can login.  Jeeeesh!

Tue, 05/11/2010 - 18:40 | Link to Comment Problem Is
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"No one from the ECB can login."

Sure they can... the answers are all negative numbers... The ECB knows negative...

I asked Tyler earlier if Marla was running the CAPTCHA servers now because the answers work for once... and I keep getting 69 and -69...

Tue, 05/11/2010 - 18:17 | Link to Comment Bolweevil
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"Did you see the size of that chicken!?"

Tue, 05/11/2010 - 18:22 | Link to Comment DavosSherman
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Doing God's work, just like the Bishops who molested innocent kids. F*cking morons. There are no devils in hell - they are all here.

Tue, 05/11/2010 - 18:41 | Link to Comment nope-1004
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This reminds of the realtards blowing smoke up everyone's ass prior to the crash, issuing statements like "why your house will never go down in value".

 

Idiots.

Tue, 05/11/2010 - 21:12 | Link to Comment moneymutt
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I remember seeing a bill board in 2008 from local realtards saying "you'll wish you had bought now"...knew I should have taken a dated pic...GSacs remind of some of these politicians that seem to think video recording and youtube don't exist...they start to think whatever thing the say is the truth, cause they said, regardless of whatever they have said in the past

Tue, 05/11/2010 - 23:05 | Link to Comment merehuman
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" The fundamentals of our economy are sound" George Bush talking about his friends while on national TV

lol . Must have been drunk

Tue, 05/11/2010 - 18:58 | Link to Comment aurum
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td -  i love how you have greece as the country in the drop down box....thats too good

Tue, 05/11/2010 - 19:04 | Link to Comment cougar_w
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So how do they deliver the required "Kool-aide" over the interwebs? Because you're going to have to be heavily sedated to make any sense of this one.

Tue, 05/11/2010 - 19:07 | Link to Comment WaterWings
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In other words...*EMERGENCY [SQUID] BROADCAST*

"The World is Better than you think because we have already reserved your luxury bunks in one of our DULS (deep underground living space) based on your geographic location. In this special message we will detail travel arrangements for safe transport of you and your loved ones..."

Any good ZH hackers out there?

Tue, 05/11/2010 - 19:14 | Link to Comment no cnbc cretin
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TOTAL BS! Roman Empire, times a quadrillion.

Tue, 05/11/2010 - 19:20 | Link to Comment doggings
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Sure they can... the answers are all negative numbers... The ECB knows negative...

lol, yes they do. I think the conversation went something like this:

"well, we're -350 billion Euros at least, what we gonna do?"

 

"...er, add another -750 billion Euros? "

and that is pretty similar to the capcha

Tue, 05/11/2010 - 20:03 | Link to Comment No More Bubbles
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When you keep taking ALL THE MONEY in the game, then YOUR WORLD is just fine.

It's easy to do "God's work" when you actually ARE God.........

Tue, 05/11/2010 - 20:05 | Link to Comment Transor Z
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Why Proper Title Capitalization Is Only for the Little People

Tue, 05/11/2010 - 21:46 | Link to Comment grunk
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We have just released the Kraken:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Thcaq8N-Js

 

 

 

Tue, 05/11/2010 - 22:40 | Link to Comment FischerBlack
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Why the World is Better than You Think

 

Shortest. Conference Call. Ever.

Tue, 05/11/2010 - 23:46 | Link to Comment Mr Creosote
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No, shortest would be "Business Ethics of the Squid."

Tue, 05/11/2010 - 23:05 | Link to Comment HomemadeLasagna
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This is what's left when you go all in throwing $1 trillion at the Euro and it barely buys you a day.  This is like BP's plan to plug the oil leak by shooting tires and golf balls into it...

Tue, 05/11/2010 - 23:09 | Link to Comment Alienated Serf
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dlt

Tue, 05/11/2010 - 23:10 | Link to Comment merehuman
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One at a time ?   Would it help if we all shot our tires? You first.

I bet that underwater golfing dont come cheap.

Where do i get the caddy?

Tue, 05/11/2010 - 23:13 | Link to Comment merehuman
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somebody call a plumber , we have a leak over here.

Tue, 05/11/2010 - 23:19 | Link to Comment Zombies On Toast
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What is GS going to do now? You can't get any better than 63 out of 63! I would say that their world is way better than mine! Of course, their world is "The World".

Tue, 05/11/2010 - 23:30 | Link to Comment Apostate
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Something awful happened to the firm after it went IPO. Obviously, there is no way to maintain a consistent culture throughout the firm, especially when you're dealing with so many investors who WANT to lose money. They don't want to make money. It's in their psychology.

The religious believe that "money is evil" shit, so they purposefully behave irresponsibly. That's the unfortunate culture of the sell-side. If the Federal Reserve could be K.O.ed, the banks would go back to being little houses. Of course, the government would basically die, but who cares? Oh no, they'd have to bring their permanently brain-damaged soldiers home. Who would keep us safe from the diaper bomber then?

Puh-leeze.

Tue, 05/11/2010 - 23:30 | Link to Comment Recovery3000
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Even Chinatown back ally bookies lose once in a while, although instead of going to the Fed for more cash, they kill the man's family....The back alley seems more honest

Wed, 05/12/2010 - 01:07 | Link to Comment williambanzai7
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Mr Market milkman does well for himself!

ANOTHER FINE DAY AT THE BUCKET SHOP:

http://williambanzai7.blogspot.com/2010/05/another-fine-day-at-bucket-sh...

Wed, 05/12/2010 - 00:19 | Link to Comment williambanzai7
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They say that Richard Cory owns one half of this whole town,
With political connections to spread his wealth around.
Born into society, a banker's only child,
He had everything a man could want: power, grace, and style.

But I work in his factory
And I curse the life I'm living
And I curse my poverty
And I wish that I could be,
Oh, I wish that I could be,
Oh, I wish that I could be
Richard Cory.

The papers print his picture almost everywhere he goes:
Richard Cory at the opera, Richard Cory at a show.
And the rumor of his parties and the orgies on his yacht!
Oh, he surely must be happy with everything he's got.

But I work in his factory
And I curse the life I'm living
And I curse my poverty
And I wish that I could be,
Oh, I wish that I could be,
Oh, I wish that I could be
Richard Cory.

He freely gave to charity, he had the common touch,
And they were grateful for his patronage and thanked him very much,
So my mind was filled with wonder when the evening headlines read:
"Richard Cory went home last night and put a bullet through his head."

But I work in his factory
And I curse the life I'm living
And I curse my poverty
And I wish that I could be,
Oh, I wish that I could be,
Oh, I wish that I could be
Richard Cory.

Simon and Garfunkel
Wed, 05/12/2010 - 01:56 | Link to Comment Ted K
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I chose not to listen to it.  Is there any doubt the pure crap they spew out on those conference calls???  I might ask the authors of Zerohedge what does one EVER learn from those conference calls....  I sware on my Mom's grave I didn't listen to it.  Does it start off something like some Goldman prick going "Well for all the negative naysayer nigityboobiterbobs out there who are jealous of us, here is what all the bignosed guys gave to Jewish charities last year after they figured out how it would benefit them on their tax margins.  See!!! Aren't we just the most generous sham artists the world has ever known???  Here, you can kiss my shoe now."

I don't have time to listen to rubbish, I have to make time for posts like these.

Wed, 05/12/2010 - 02:15 | Link to Comment Temporalist
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What are drugs?

Before your preconceived notions would you take anything if it saved your life?

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/12/science/12psychedelics.html

 

 

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