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The Goldman Scandal Is Much Ado About Nothing

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By John Tamny, Forbes

The story about the alleged Goldman Sachs scandal is that there’s no story.  With no client base ever monolithic, it’s apparent that Goldman served clients with bullish and bearish views in creating ABACUS.  That John Paulson was involved is only relevant in hindsight because back in 2007 he wasn’t taken seriously.  If GS did in fact obscure his involvement, its only mistake was a marketing one whereby it didn’t highlight the involvement of a hedge fund manager viewed with disdain by mortgage bulls, and who would have perhaps put even more money into the fund if Paulson’s role had been known given his low reputation.  As for Fabrice Tourre’s e-mail, grandiose statements are commplace among investment types, and are most notable for how very wrong they frequently are.

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Douglas A. McIntyre is the co-founder, chief executive officer and editor in chief of 24/7 Wall St. and 24/7 Tempo. He has held these jobs since 2006.

McIntyre has written thousands of articles for 24/7 Wall St. He is an expert on corporate finance, the automotive industry, media companies and international finance. He has edited articles on national demographics, sports, personal income and travel.

His work has been quoted or mentioned in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, NBC News, Time, The New Yorker, HuffPost USA Today, Business Insider, Yahoo, AOL, MarketWatch, The Atlantic, Bloomberg, New York Post, Chicago Tribune, Forbes, The Guardian and many other major publications. McIntyre has been a guest on CNBC, the BBC and television and radio stations across the country.

A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College, McIntyre also was president of The Harvard Advocate. Founded in 1866, the Advocate is the oldest college publication in the United States.

TheStreet.com, Comps.com and Edgar Online are some of the public companies for which McIntyre served on the board of directors. He was a Vicinity Corporation board member when the company was sold to Microsoft in 2002. He served on the audit committees of some of these companies.

McIntyre has been the CEO of FutureSource, a provider of trading terminals and news to commodities and futures traders. He was president of Switchboard, the online phone directory company. He served as chairman and CEO of On2 Technologies, the video compression company that provided video compression software for Adobe’s Flash. Google bought On2 in 2009.

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