As you know, we’ve been chronicling the financial services space’s Israel-Palestinian conflict, otherwise known as Gasparino v. Goldman Sachs. The catfight broke out last Thursday, when Chaz reported that GS had held a double top secret meeting hours after Geithner’s Congressional debut, the topic of conversation being a lack of confidence in T. Geith. Goldman Sachs called BS on the sit-down being a secret or about T-bone, Chaz said they were lying and should change their ticker to BS, and then Joe Kernan, in a successful effort to egg CG on, claimed that the bank’s spokesman, Lucas van Praag, had the distinction of being the only GS employee whose family’s story was the basis for The Sound Of Music. What would be next, we wondered with detached interest, only in so much that, as humans, we enjoy watching the time-honored tradition of Jewish and Italian mafias battling over Wall Street supremacy. But this morning, all was silent.
We should’ve known the silence was indicative a bomb about to be dropped, but, foolishly, we assumed we were in the presence of a ceasefire. And then, this: a surprise strike by Gasparino, so violent, we’re not sure how GS will recover. In fact, we don’t even know if something like this is legal, so if someone could weigh in, that’d be top notch:
But the trouble in Goldman-land, is not just of the financial, or balance-sheet variety. It’s more like a crisis in confidence. To be sure, Goldman Sachs isn’t going out of business any time soon–or even ever; in fact, I expect the firm to expand in the coming months. (The firm’s CFO, David Viniar, recently stated that he feels so confident about the future that he’s now looking for ways in which Goldman could give back the government funding it took last year.) And rumors continue to swirl that Goldman may somehow team up with Citigroup in some type of reverse merger that gives Goldman access to Citi’s massive balance sheet.
How are the Masters even supposed to respond to such hideous allegations?
Has Goldman Lost Its Swagger? [Daily Beast]
The Gasper
Why doesn’t GS just lean on T-Geith to take control of Citi then give GS the good pieces.
Negative times a negative equals a positive.
The Great Gaspy.
Chalk it up, boys. One more notch on the bowflex bar.
Do you think Gaspo goes flexes into the mirror during air breaks?
Chazzarino now spars with Wall Street’s Jewish Mafia, yessss…..this is getting good. He may even find a severed pigs head in his locker at Equinox tonight.
this is so fluid
silence broken!
Standing in the street right now I see the CNBC helicopter bombing 85 Broad with what looks like Soppressata…its bouncing of the roof like hail.
@3 or negative plus a negative equals more negative i.e. MER + BAC
Chazzy G might rule the roost at Equinox, but those Goldy Sacks boys play ruff and will jump him when he heads to the bathroom at Elaine’s.
Charles:
Keep your friends close,
but your enemies closer
DON CORLEONE
GS 1Q earnings will be $4-6B…buy now…
This will be know as the Sopressata and Gefilte Fish War on the Street.
Dzoccu nun ti appreni, nun dir né mali né beni,
The Kosher Mafia – don’t fuck with us Gasparino!
Never pick a fight with someone who buys ink by the barrel.
What’s nice about Dealbreaker is that I never knew who Charlie Gasparino was.
Dealbreaker should be charging Charlie G. sum hefty PR fees.
I ate a bifg meal this morning so now I have to go to the john and take a Bernanke.
Think of the tax losses embedded in that bitch.
I bet Charles $50 once that he could not fit his entire fist into his mouth.
Quit pickin’ on Gasparino….he is OK. Also, he might find you and break both you legs.
Dealbreaker needs to take over the Wall Street Boxing event management, given the entirely obvious pugilistic tones surrounding this situation, it’d be a sell-out crowd.
In case you want to find out where he lives, it’s Joe Kernen, not Kernan.
OK, that out the way, I see Gasbag is now trying to get even with GS by planting that Citigroup balance sheet joke. He’s off message. GS is going to eat him up alive.
@20- yeah ok. he LOVES the attention db gives him.
CNBC NEWS FLASH!!!
MCC in a red pullover – hay Dios mio!
uh, didn’t blankfien call vik to ask for that just a few months ago?
Chazz….Stonewall Inn’s Finest
Uhhh, Gasparino – the Unemployed Trannies also have something to say to you about this GS harrassment: STOP NOW BITCH, BEFORE YOU REALLY GET HURT. Don’t get between the Jews and their balance sheets, honey.
I hope Viniar and Blanky also agree to buy back the tens of billions of 100%-FDIC-backed “full faith and credit of the USA” debt they issued over the past few months.
Nothing like being an ingrate about a highly publicized subsidy (TARP injection) but saying nothing about an under-the-radar implicit subsidy (TLGP).
CGas is the gas-chamber of failing Wall Street financial institutions.
CGas is dangerous and is one and only!
Go CGas!
I figure Gasbagarumor is running for NY Mayoralty position in the near future.