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Hi Guys, We got a big position in 3m libor for the next 3 days. Can we please keep the libor fixing at 5.39 for the next few days. It would really help. We do not want it to fix any higher than that. Tks a lot.

If only lenders and underwriters would try and buy a house for themselves--maybe things would run a bit more smoothly.

It makes me ill how callously people talk about ripping their clients off. Over the last 12 months I have seen five different managing directors refer to their own clients as “muppets,” sometimes over internal e-mail.

The firm changed the way it thought about leadership. Leadership used to be about ideas, setting an example and doing the right thing. Today, if you make enough money for the firm (and are not currently an ax murderer) you will be promoted into a position of influence.

I have always taken a lot of pride in advising my clients to do what I believe is right for them, even if it means less money for the firm. This view is becoming increasingly unpopular at Goldman Sachs.

The first thing you need to know about Goldman Sachs is that it's everywhere. The world's most powerful investment bank is a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money.

Being in Chapter 13 is only a chapter in the story of your life

The only thing short about a short sale is the tempers it creates.

It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful... bend the acts of government to their selfish purposes. In the full enjoyment of [life] every man is equally entitled to protection by law; but when the laws undertake to add to [life] artificial distinctions... to make the rich richer and the potent more powerful, the humble members of society, who [cannot] secur[e] like favors..., have a right to complain of the injustice.

From tomorrow the new Bank of England five pound note comes into circulation. The notes, which feature the head of Iggy Pop, can only be used once.

A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.