yeah, why are you believing anything GS is betting on? Haven't they proved to be shitty gamblers who pad their 'pitch' just to make a buck?
They hired an ad agency (staffed by Bush/Rove ex-staffers) to spruce up their
image after they were bailed out by Bush.
Turning to outside consultants to gauge a firm's "perception in the marketplace" is unusual for the 140-year-old firm. But that's what you do, even if you are Masters of the Universe, when the national and international media accuse you of engineering and profiting from a back-door rescue of AIG, of using cash from a taxpayer bailout and cheap Federal Reserve financing to help finance lavish bonuses, and taking down the entire Greek economy.
HEAVENLY MAKEOVER: In the wake of bailouts and bonus binges, Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein has taken the unusual step of hiring a p.r. firm to improve its "perception in the marketplace."
Blankfein took the step of using the fancy p.r. firm, Public Strategies, sources say, because he feels Goldman has successfully weath
weathered a storm of controversy -- by trimming the overall compensation pool to 36 percent of revenue -- and must now work to undo the damage.
Public Strategies, headed by Dan Bartlett, a confidant of George W. Bush and Karl Rove, is already on the case. Earlier this month, Goldman clients and Wall Street analysts starting filling out an exhaustive, online questionnaire seeking to pinpoint exactly what people thought of Blankfein's firm.
Which is nice, since BP hired Goldman Sachs to spruce up their
image after the gulf oil spill...
The Times understands that Mr Prodi, who twice served as Italy’s prime minister, is a key member of an “international advisory board” assisting BP that also includes Josh Bolten, the former chief of staff to President George W. Bush. Both Mr Prodi and Mr Bolten are former employees of Goldman Sachs
