Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley Become Banks

September 22nd, 2008

Trust us. We won’t be evil anymore…

Oh sure.

Via: Bloomberg:

The Wall Street that shaped the financial world for two decades ended last night, when Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and Morgan Stanley concluded there is no future in remaining investment banks now that investors have determined the model is broken.

The Federal Reserve’s approval of their bid to become banks ends the ascendancy of the securities firms, 75 years after Congress separated them from deposit-taking lenders, and caps weeks of chaos that sent Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. into bankruptcy and led to the rushed sale of Merrill Lynch & Co. to Bank of America Corp.

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One Response to “Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley Become Banks”

  1. John Doh says:
    September 22, 2008 at 8:04 pm

    Walking Dead Mitsubeeshee UFJ takes the offered uncannibalized bait of fellow financial zombie Moregann Stanlee

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