Dylan Ratigan fans, heads up. Dylan dons a magician's outfit to show how Goldman Sachs

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made a $3 Billion profit despite the financial crisis. Should be good.

Coming up on MSNBC...

[Phoebe Loosinhouse]

1. Dylan Ratigan is a muckraker/truth exposer extraordinaire

in all issues financial, bail-out, tarp, etc.

I gain new respect for him almost every day.

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2. Coming up next... n/t

[AllentownJake]

3. I can't wait to see this

[lonestarnot]

4. Is it done yet?

[AllentownJake]

5. Just starting

[lonestarnot]

6. Yeah we got it! And so did those now homeless folks who had their life savings

ripped for a CEO bonus. Shock and awe econ 101, Jump mother fuckers JUMP!

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7. We financed our own screwning. n/t

[lonestarnot]

8. and w/o consent!

[Neecy]

9. That was a good segment

I guess when you shove billions and billions of taxpayer dollars to a company like GS in an economic downturn, they'll get to sweep up all the chips. They're the only ones with money.

Disgusting.

[AllentownJake]

10. and the access

Can't forget the access, the Obama Administration is pretty much a subsidiary of Goldman Sachs continuing the same thing that happened under the last years of Bush.

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11. You know what is missing from that segment? This:

Goldman Sachs is engaged in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algorithmic_trading#Market_making_and_high_frequency_trading">high-frequency trading (HFT). Some critics charge that the practice of HFT tips the level of the playing field in favor of Goldman Sachs and others who employ an HFT strategy.

According to Senator Edward Kaufman (D - Del.), who http://www.realclearmarkets.com/articles/2009/07/31/a_level_playing_field_for_investors_97337.html">sent a letter to the SEC in which he stated:

Regrettably, we now have an unfair playing field for investors. This leaves us with, in effect, two financial markets: one for powerful insiders, who use high-speed computers and privileged access to information to exploit loopholes for profit, and another for the average investor, who must play by the rules and whose orders are filled almost as an afterthought. This situation simply cannot continue. It is the financial equivalent of 'separate and unequal.'

[lonestarnot]

12. Yes.

[kentuck]

13. Excellent!

That should be part of his regular gig. :-)