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Yeah! i believe he has what it takes but based on Goldman Sach's current perception of being problems than solution i was just wondering if he is not going to sell us out

Goldman Sachs - genius or hubris?

http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/markets/article-23826673-goldman-sachs---genius-or-hubris.do

When I last met Lucas van Praag, Goldman Sachs' head of PR, he told me a story about his family and against himself and his employer that was witty, warm and perceptive.

The last time I saw Michael Sherwood, the co-head of Goldman in Europe, he talked about his charity work. Richard Gnodde, the other co-head, always likes to talk politics, priding himself on being close to the action.

Jim O'Neill, the bank's chief economist, was the first to spot the potential of the emerging nations of Brazil, Russia, India and China. A lifelong Red, he's the leader of the bid to return ownership of Manchester United to its fans.

It's possible to go right through the hierarchy of Goldman, here and in New York, and find executives who ooze intelligence. Go down the layers of management and the same applies: it's fair to say that no commercial organisation is possessed of so much brain-power and none works harder and puts in such long hours. Certainly, no company anywhere or at any juncture in history has produced so many multimillionaires.

And yet Goldman has displayed an uncanny knack for getting it wrong, for misreading the public and political mood. Goldman is one of the banks that was rescued by the US taxpayer but continues to pay its people vast bonuses (an average of £109,000 for the first three months of this year alone). The gap between rich and poor gets ever wider and causes widespread consternation, yet Goldman carries on blithely handing out enormous sums.

It could do far more for good causes and repair its image but chooses not to. Worse than that, the bank now stands accused of blatant fraud, of climbing into bed with a client who wanted it to create some financial instruments that the bank could sell to other institutions and he could bet against, in the expectation that they would fail.

The US Securities and Exchange Commission has charged Goldman; the UK's Financial Services Authority is also investigating.

The client made close to $1 billion; the buyers lost close to $1 billion. As wheezes go, it was shocking. And for what? For a measly $15 million, Goldman's arrangement fee. This from a bank that yesterday announced profits of $3.5 billion for the first quarter of this year.

Did the bank not think that the clients might complain, that the authorities would wonder how it was that the instigator, hedge fund boss John Paulson, had pocketed so much?

What does it say about the hierarchy of the bank that they declare to the world they hire only the brightest and the best and put them through 50 testing interviews, only for their staff to engage in such socially useless activity?

When Lord Turner, the chairman of the FSA, used that phrase, "socially useless", in the aftermath of the near banking meltdown, to describe what investment bankers did, he was mocked by many in the City, including those within Goldman.

But it was this sort of arrangement with Paulson that he had in mind. Here we have a bank conniving with a hedge fund manager to load up investors with rubbish that he could exploit for his own ends. What could be more socially useless than that?

After details of the Paulson plot emerged, the Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, accused Goldman of engaging in "moral bankruptcy". Faced with that stinging criticism, many organisations and individuals would display contrition and beg for understanding.

Not Goldman. At the bank they've retreated into their bunker, confident that the crisis will pass and that their dominant position in banking and the capital markets will see them through, that clients will not desert them.

In this respect, they've become the Millwall FC of high finance, adopting a "nobody likes us but we don't care" attitude, believing entirely in their own brilliance and power. As one of their senior executives once said to me: "You have to understand we're a bank. We're not a charity. We don't do politics. We make money for our clients." And, he could have added, "for ourselves".

The Goldman vice-president Fabrice Tourre ("Fabulous Fab", as he calls himself), who masterminded the bank's participation in the alleged fraud and boasted of his prowess in emails, has not been fired or even suspended, but, we're informed, was cleared by an internal inquiry and is on paid leave, although he has been deregistered with the FSA.

Greg Palm, Goldman's general counsel, has gone on the offensive, supporting Tourre and taking an uncompromising aggressive stance towards the SEC. Nowhere is there any hint from the bank that even if it manages to overturn the SEC accusation its action was morally questionable.

But then this is a bank likened in Rolling Stone magazine, in its own US backyard, to "a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money".

That description last year prompted a deluge of similar attacks around the world - and sneers from the bank's stung management. In their sealed tank where they were masters of all they surveyed, and were treated as such by grateful clients, they just didn't get it. The assaults prompted the astonishing claim from Lloyd Blankfein, Goldman's ultimate head, that his organisation did "God's work". Astonishing to the rest of the world, but not to Goldman.

In the end, no matter how good their numbers, businesses are destroyed by people. They build them up and they knock them down. It's human nature - it's the failings of arrogance, greed, hubris and lust.

Already, the comparison is being made with Arthur Andersen, the auditor to Enron that collapsed as soon as that same SEC pursued it in the wake of Enron's demise. Clients ditched Arthur Andersen rather than be tarnished with the same fraudulent brush.

Goldman does not certify accounts the same as Andersen did. But it's an adviser and, right now, who do you want on your team: the bank that causes your critics to ask questions of you or one that provokes no untoward response?

Governments are coming under pressure to withdraw their Goldman business. Once that occurs, major corporations, especially those that value their ties with those same governments, may follow suit.

As Goldman attempts to reassure clients it really has got their best interests at heart, and to calm investors and staff, there's no doubt the bank's judgment has gone awry.

Goldman prides itself on being different. From its over-the-top recruitment process to its alumni network, it cloaks itself in an ethos of superiority.

Like most Wall Street firms it started off as a partnership, but while the others long since gave up that structure, preferring to become listed companies the same as everybody else, it clung to the old structure, managing to combine it with going public. So when Goldman floated in 1999, those who were partners received shares worth £150 million each at today's prices.

Many of them remained, a tribute to the bank's chemistry. When questioned why, they would often answer that they couldn't imagine working anywhere else.

So, each year, the annual addition to the partners' remuneration pool is a major event, here and in New York and the other places where Goldman has large offices. Some employees make it, most don't. Whatever - it all adds to the Goldman mystique.

Its workers are encouraged to think on the front foot, to come up with smart solutions - which is why Goldman's clients value their involvement so much and one of the reasons why it is able to produce earnings that leave its rivals gasping.

There is, however, a fine line between being creative and being aggressive. When BAA, the British airports operator, faced a bid from Ferrovial of Spain, Marcus Agius, the chairman (he now chairs Barclays), called in the company's advisers, Goldman. To his anger and astonishment, they turned up in his office and said they had a solution: they would buy BAA.

Agius threw them out. At pub company Mitchells & Butlers, Roger Carr, its chairman (he went on to chair Cadbury), experienced the same treatment.

The bank was an adviser but when Mitchells faced the prospect of a takeover said it was willing to form a consortium to take the business over itself. A staggered Carr told the Goldman advisers they couldn't be both adviser and bidder and had to choose. Eventually, they were shown the door, the same as at BAA.

At RBS, Fred Goodwin wanted to undertake what was a record £12 billion rights issue to shore up the Scottish bank's capital base. Three banks - Goldman, Merrill Lynch and UBS - were asked if they would underwrite or guarantee the mammoth share offering in return for success fees. Merrill and UBS bought RBS shares to hedge their risk and show confidence in their client.

Goldman refused, didn't purchase the rights and laid off its exposure in the market - causing the market to question whether the bank had faith in RBS at all. Goodwin was livid, believing he had a verbal agreement with Goldman, and cut its fee. Goldman argued it was well within its rights to do what it did.

When Northern Rock went down, the Treasury turned to Goldman. It was to be paid £5 million. The plan was to see if the beleaguered bank could be sold. In the end there was no alternative and it was nationalised - at which point, to the fury of the Treasury, Goldman asked for a further £4 million for achieving a successful outcome.

Last year, Goldman became embroiled in a row with China. Several of its state-owned companies were sold packages of complex derivatives by Western banks, with Goldman central among them, which lost money and led to accusations by the Chinese that they had been duped into buying the financial instruments.

This year, Goldman was revealed as having helped Greece hide the true level of that country's indebtedness in a secret deal said to have earned the bank as much as £192 million. Again, Goldman stresses it did nothing wrong.

Gerald Corrigan, chairman of Goldman Sachs Bank USA, the bank's holding company, said it was "consistent" with the regulations of the time. However, Corrigan admitted that "with hindsight" the bank should have been more transparent.

There's a pattern here. It's also easier to see why "Fabulous Fab" perhaps believed in his own genius and why Goldman has backed him rather than disowned him.

It's in the culture, in the DNA. It's about being a bank and making money. In that regard, PR is an expense, it doesn't add directly to the bottom line. If the bank is going to survive and continue to prosper it is going to have to change. The question is whether it is too late. Nothing lasts for ever. Not even Goldman Sachs.

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Sometimes the failure of the flawed succession planning process is recognized only after the death of the parents when the "plan" is sprung on the family during the reading of the will - and the legacy the parents were trying to create for their children and grandchildren is destroyed because of greed, misunderstandings and the lack of involvement in the family succession planning process. The family succession plan should include strategies to put the business interests ahead of the family interests should emphasize merit over family position Family-first Business or Business-first Family?

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Is she having neck pain?

Zimbabwe Government is looking for a hangman for their maximum prison outside Harare, i know some desperate Nigerians will not mind:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/apr/13/hangman-zimbabwe-chikurubi-prison

None ! God - English language, Allah - Arabic language

tkb417:
are they friends? use a dictionary to know the meaning of friends bro

Are they enemies tbk417?

Please read their body language, their eyes - you will feel what they said to each other

Show me your friends and i will show you who you are

Yeah! a delegate from Nairaland - i will nominate Seun and Kunle Oshob

Exactly! please what documentary evidence shows the worship of the idols, if the British invaders could burn down Benin and take all the idols on board a British war ship which did not sink during it voyage to Britain, then all those wooden and iron artifacts are just what they are objects without any demonic forces else British economy should be worse than the Nigerian economy

What rubbish! i have asked a friend who said the same thing that when the British imperialist looted all the idols in Benin Kingdom why didn't the export of the idols destroy the British economy which is listed as the 5th largest economy in the world.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benin_Expedition_of_1897

May God continue to bless Tunde Bakare

http://www.punchng.com/Articl.aspx?theartic=Art201004066164012

I am just wondering when Davis Oyedepo, Adejare Adeboye, Chris Oyaks and all the tithing and seed offering collecting pastors will fight to defend justice and the oppressed.

I think the problem we have with tithing is that we are not taken a holistic look and what Moses wrote across the 5 books of Moses called - The Laws and the Prophet. If you read thru these books you will see that God ordained the Israelites to obey several commandments, statutes, laws, regulations, offering and ordinances . The Jews to whom these Laws and Prophet were targeted at call them collectively ' The Mitzvots", there are 613 of them spread across the 5 books of Moses.

At these point let me give an analogy - if you have a set of jigsaw puzzles which you are not familiar with the image that makes up the puzzle. You must understand that you need to arrange and put together all the pieces to see the global picture and not the myopic picture. In other words you wouldn't know the outcome until you put the pieces together.

Now tithing is just a piece of the puzzle that makes up the Laws and the Prophets. And Christ and the Apostles made the following statements pertaining to the Laws and the Prophets in the new testament:

Matthew 5:17 Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil. 5:18 For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.

Matthew 7:12 "In everything, therefore, treat people the same way you want them to treat you, for this is the Law and the Prophets.

Matthew 22:40 "On these two commandments depend the whole Law and the Prophets."

Romans 13:8 Owe nothing to anyone except to love one another; for he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law.

Romans 13:10 Love does no wrong to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfillment of the law.

Galatians 6:2 Bear one another's burdens, and thereby fulfill the law of Christ

Galatians 3:23–25 Before this faith came, we were held prisoners by the law, locked up until faith should be revealed. 24 So the law was put in charge to lead us to Christ that we might be justified by faith. 25 Now that faith has come, we are no longer under the supervision of the law.

Ephesians 2:15 by abolishing in his flesh the law with its commandments and regulations. His purpose was to create in himself one new man out of the two, thus making peace,

Romans 10:4 Christ is the end of the law so that there may be righteousness for everyone who believes.

Galatians 3:10 For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse: for it is written, Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them. 3:11 But that no man is justified by the law in the sight of God, it is evident: for, The just shall live by faith. 3:12 And the law is not of faith: but, The man that doeth them shall live in them. 3:13 Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree

Hebrews 8:7 For if that first covenant had been faultless, then should no place have been sought for the second. 8:8 For finding fault with them, he saith, Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah: 8:9 Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; because they continued not in my covenant, and I regarded
them not, saith the Lord.

By these the entire Laws and the Prophets were fulfilled and abolished by Christ. So the issue of picking one law - tithing and leaving the other 612 abolished is superfluous else you will have to obey the entire Laws and Prophet and that makes you a Jew and not a Christian.

Thank you Ladies and Gentlemen

Ferrets key to bridging the digital divide between cities and rural areas
Specially trained ferrets are being used to deliver broadband to rural areas following groundbreaking techniques used by an Internet provider.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/7541455/Ferrets-key-to-bridging-the-digital-divide-between-cities-and-rural-areas.html

Ferrets have been used by Virgin Media for over a year to help lay cables for its broadband service Photo: VIRGIN
The animals have been used by Virgin Media for over a year to help lay cables for its broadband service, the company has disclosed.
The ferrets wear jackets fitted with a microchip which is able to analyse any breaks or damage in the underground network.

The development could help increase broadband in current Internet "dead zones", giving access to inaccessible places, and and helping bridge the 'digital divide'.
Currently most broadband technologies are limited to short distances from central switching offices so most companies focus on cities to keep costs down.
The government has set a target of universal broadband access of 2Mbps by 2012. Analysts estimate that the cost of running fibre optic cables to all parts of the country could cost anywhere between £10 billion and £25 billion. A 50p levy of every phone line in the country has been proposed to cover costs.
Currently around two million homes, one in 10 households, are without broadband.
Jon James, director of broadband for Virgin Media, said: "For hundreds of years, ferrets have helped humans in various jobs. Our decision to use them is due to their strong nesting instinct, their long, lean build and inquisitive nature, and for their ability to get down holes. We initially kept the trial low-key as we wanted to assess how well the ferrets fitted into our operations before revealing this enterprising scheme."
Ferrets have been used to run cables through hard-to-reach places in the past.
Events organisers in London used them to run television and sound cables outside Buckingham Palace for the wedding of the Prince of Wales and the late Diana, Princess of Wales.
A similar system was used to lay the cables for televised coverage for the Party in the Park concert in Greenwich at the Millennium.
With their long lean build ferrets have historically been sent down holes to chase rodents and rabbits out of their burrows.
Caesar Augustus is thought to have sent ferrets to the Balearic Islands to control the rabbit plagues in 6BC.

Honestly , i am waiting to see what the government will do about it, because they rented an accommodation so development should not occur around it. Why can't they look for another accommodation to rent.

US halts construction of Abuja road •Cites security reason

http://www.tribune.com.ng/index.php/news/3373-us-halts-construction-of-abuja-road-cites-security-reason.html

NIGERIA and the United States of America (USA) may be heading towards diplomatic face-off as US has decided to wield its power over Nigeria by ordering the Engineering Services Department of the Federal Capital Development Authority (FCDA) to discontinue the construction of road infrastructure in Area D, Asokoro district of the Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA).

This according to the Chief Resident Engineer of the project, Mrs Elizabeth Oricha, the US Embassy in Nigeria gave the order that the road construction be stopped as it was heading towards one of its rented properties in Asokoro District on the ground that such road when completed would constitute a security threat to the Embassy and its personnel.

Oricha disclosed on Tuesday, when the FCDA board members toured ongoing projects in the FCT.

She explained that the US embassy in Nigeria had ordered the contractor handling the project Messrs SCC to discontinue work and leave the portion of the road passing in front of one of its rented properties in the area, asking the contractor to divert the road to elsewhere, a development the immediate former FCT Minister, Senator Adamu Aliero, described as unacceptable.

The resident engineer further explained that Senator Aliero gave a go ahead on the project on the ground that such order from the USA government could not stand as it would amount to violation of the Abuja Master plan.

[size=8pt][size=8pt][size=8pt]The answer is found in the parable of the good Samaritan[/size][/size][/size]

The parable is found in the Gospel of Luke, chapter 10, verses 25-37.

The parable goes;

One day an expert in religious law stood up to test Jesus by asking him this question: “Teacher, what should I do to inherit eternal life?” Jesus replied, “What does the law of Moses say? How do you read it?” The man answered, “‘You must love the Lord your God with all your heart, all your soul, all your strength, and all your mind.’ And, ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’” “Right!” Jesus told him. “Do this and you will live!” The man wanted to justify his actions, so he asked Jesus, “And who is my neighbor?”

Jesus then replied with a story:

“A Jewish man was travelling on a trip from Jerusalem to Jericho, and he was attacked by bandits. They stripped him of his clothes, beat him up, and left him half dead beside the road. By chance a priest (senior tithe collector) came along. But when he saw the man lying there, he crossed to the other side of the road and passed him by. A Levite (tithe collector) walked over and looked at him lying there, but he also passed by on the other side. Then a despised Samaritan came along, and when he saw the man, he felt compassion for him. Going over to him, the Samaritan soothed his wounds with olive oil and wine and bandaged them. Then he put the man on his own donkey and took him to an inn, where he took care of him. The next day he handed the innkeeper two silver coins, telling him, ‘Take care of this man. If his bill runs higher than this, I’ll pay you the next time I’m here.’ “Now which of these three would you say was a neighbor to the man who was attacked by bandits?” Jesus asked. The man replied, “The one who showed him mercy.” Then Jesus said, “Yes, now go and do the same.

A Sharia Court sitting in Kaduna has ordered the immediate suspension of all debates on the amputation of Bello Buba Jangebe on online sites - Facebook and Twitter.

http://www.thisdayonline.com/nview.php?id=169809

This is means that we can debate it on Nairaland since Nairaland is not included. Honestly i think the guy Jangebe should sue the past governor of Zamfara - Sani Yerima for grievous injury pertaining to the loss of his hand and a breach of his fundamental human right. What do you think?

AjanleKoko:
The Nigerian corporate environment is a beehive of sycophancy, profligacy, and other vices.

It is not just in Nigeria oh ! it is all over the world, every company i contracted for in Britain, some one some where wants to discuss the boss and a group of other people they called 'wankers' with me. They just wanted to know my black minority opinion, but i have learnt they just want to get me into trouble so i simply smile and play along but never did i pass a comment on anybody.

Honestly Nigeria's Police Force - a den of thieves gave this advise today in the vanguard, please check the hyperlink:

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2010/03/29/i-robbery-deposit-your-money-with-us-police-advise-petrol-stations/

Honestly i think we should line up every body who has ruled this country from local government counselor to ex president and execute them. How can a war torn country be deporting Nigerians, it means that Nigeria is worse than a war torn country.

of course he should do business, how does he want to survive except he is running one man business called a church

when you start to collect tithe and seed offering - you will know you are called by god of mammon

finished

Please stop all this funny statements, in as much as it is in the bible , please note that the rule was directed to the Israelites when the prevailing mode of worship of God was Judaism. However with the ushering in of Christianity - a religion with a more global focus such rules that are culture specific to the Jews in not applicable to others. Or are you saying ladies living in temperate regions of the world should wear skirt all year round. If you were born an Eskimo living in the north or south pole you will put on a skirt? think about it

Stop deluding yourself that Christians should not fight back - it is because Christians fought Islam and Judaism during the first to the ninth crusade that Christendom had peace, else we will have all been praying facing mecca 5 times a day. Many thanks to the Crusaders, the knight of the Templars, the knights of the round table and King Richard the Great.

The hand writing is on the wall man - in your trying moments she decides not to show any commitment, sympathy and loyalty.

@ jjay1, jaybee and newbride - i can see that you are insulting me because i made a honest contribution

Let me make things clear to you - l schooled, lived and worked in England and Scotland for 7 years before i decided it was time to go back to Nigeria because i was tried of contracting - today i am in Scotland during software testing for 3 months tomorrow i am in reading during XP roll out for 3 weeks for another company etc I worked and drove up and down the country all the years i spent in UK. i didn't even have a life, i promised myself to visit the park just 5 minutes walk from my house but i never had time for 7 years. It was the day i finally packed my load and abandoned my car in heathrow long stay car park i realized i never went to the park to relax.

At times i spend up to 8 hours driving to and fro my work place. I couldn't move house because i was temping every where, every time i looked for a permanent job or a temp to permanent job i was told i don't have a permanent stay.

But i see a lot of Nigerians degrading themselves doing menial jobs - jobs that a primary school leaver in Nigeria does yet this people are seasoned professionals. I didnt have a job all the time but when i didnt i did not join the band wagon washing toilet and carrying dust bin for london borough.

Therefore i will not quantify the washing of toilet and doing security a decent job, what i cannot do in Nigeria i cannot do in UK. I did not regret leaving UK, infact i havent visited uk for the past 4 years now because i did not miss anything and i am well established back here in Nigeria.

i think they have to do with the igbo - ukwu tradition discovered by the lander brothers who are archeologist. Sorry if i am not acurate i did fine art more than 30 years ago

There are no decent jobs in UK for Nigerians except you call washing toilet, sweeping train stations and doing mai guard job a decent job.

Go and listen to this song by Bill Withers - mean while this is the lyrics:


My friends feel it's their appointed duty
They keep trying to tell me all you want to do is use me
But my answer yeah to all that use me stuff
Is I wanna spread the news that if it feels this good getting used
Oh you just keep on using me until you use me up
Until you use me up

My brother sit me right down and he talked to me
He told me that I ought not to let you just walk on me
And I'm sure he meant well yeah but when our talk was through
I said brother if you only knew you'd wish that you were in my shoes
You just keep on using me until you use me up
Until you use me up

Oh sometimes yeah it's true you really do abuse me
You get in a crowd of high class people and then you act real rude to me
But oh baby baby baby baby when you love me I can't get enough
I and I wanna spread the news that if it feels this good getting used
Oh you just keep on using me until you use me up
Until you use me up

Talking about you using me but it all depends on what you do
It ain't too bad the way you're using me
Cause I sure am using you to do the things you do
Ah ha to do the things you do