• 50 Cent trying to downsize, but can’t sell his CT home

• PwC brought in to help private equity avoid 50 pc tax

• UK finance minister so disenchanted with greedy bankers that he plans to become theology student

The following week’s guest is Mike Morgan of GoldmanSachs666, so you can also offer suggestions for questions for him, too.

In the meantime, here is another @Adam masterpiece for your Sunday contemplation:

When the gangs take over Wall St . . . remember, he's on your side

• Bonus boom time returns to Wall Street (The Independent)
  

Not everyone is celebrating. Financial analyst Max Keiser accused Goldman of running the US government, while US lawmakers attacked the firm for paying out juicy bonuses so shortly after the investment bank was rescued by the taxpayer. Mr Keiser, in the US magazine The Deal, described Goldman as “scum” and claimed it controls the Federal Reserve and Treasury, caused the financial crisis, and front-runs on every deal on the New York Stock Exchange.

But Goldman, used to such vitriol after a recent attack by Rolling Stone magazine, is defiant, arguing it has paid back the $10bn in taxpayers’ funds it borrowed from the TARP scheme and paid out dividends to taxpayers. Analysts say Goldman chief executive Lloyd Blankfein has played a blinder by sticking to a business model which everyone deemed dead and broken only a few months ago. While rivals such as Morgan Stanley have cut back on risks, Goldman traders have been out making markets in their traditional areas.

p.s. - Max also made it up to number 12 on the Viral Video charts. Could have been higher at some point, but we didn’t see it if it did. Anyway, good job @Danny! I know your computer/pitchfork was behind it all

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Ken Lewis finds a horse head in his bed. Hank “Sacks of Gold” Paulson’s message has been delivered.

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• Hank ‘Sacks of Gold” Paulson admits to threatening Ken Lewis

• Paulson admits ‘pressuring” Lewis

Rasta Art

• Paul Krugman on Goldman Sachs:  “What it does is bad for America”

• Matt Taibbi:  ‘Goldman Sachs are Scum’

• Paulson warned Congress of breakdown of law and order and starving Americans if $700 billion wasn’t given to bankers

The Bush administration and Congress discussed the possibility of a breakdown in law and order and the logistics of feeding US citizens if commerce and banking collapsed as a result of last autumn’s financial panic, it was disclosed yesterday.

Making his first appearance on Capitol Hill since leaving office, the former Treasury secretary Hank Paulson said it was important at the time not to reveal the extent of officials’ concerns, for fear it would “terrify the American people and lead to an even bigger problem”.

Update:

Spammers now using Goldman Sachs name to spread sex video links! Here is a spam that was caught by my spam guard:

Goldman Sachs Sex Video Spam