Goldman, with it’s agent Henry Paulson, operating as Secretary of the Treasury and using the full power of the US government, eliminates competitors (Lehman and Merrill) and gets bailed out indirectly via AIG.  And now they are making “profits”?  This is crony capitalism in extremis. Even the New York Times scorns these scoundrels, and amazingly, [...]

The associated article can be found here, however, this graph provides far more useful info than the article’s text.