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Goldman Sachs has raised its rating on large banks to “attractive.” In related news, Neal Barofsky, the special inspector general for the Troubled Asset Relief Program has said that the Feds may have, er, not quite told the truth about the health of the banks receiving TARP funds. He didn’t use the word, lie though. How are these two items related? We’ll explain below.

But there was no container large enough to hold the subprime losses. Each time one was set out, it quickly overflowed. The latest reports tell us that the bilge is now 500 times deeper than the Fed head forecast…and still rising. And this comes after $11.7 trillion has been committed in the US alone to pumping it out. Whether the plumbers are plain idiots or clever rogues, we can’t say, but it should be obvious after two years of watching them, their pumps don’t work.

The new capital of America’s financial system is not Washington, D.C. It’s Beijing. The financial press will report that the big story this weekend is that the Republicans and Democrats finally agreed on the details of a bailout deal to “save” the economy from imminent collapse. But that is not the story at all. In fact, it’s pretty nauseating to see the self- congratulatory smiles on the Senators and Congressmen and women who are on board with the Paulson plan. What have these morons wrought?

Now that he’s wearing some sort of do-good government hat, even Hank Paulson is not thinking straight. Regulate in New York and finance goes to Toronto. Regulate in London, it goes to Frankfurt or Paris – and since Toronto, Frankfurt and Paris are run by the same nervous bureaucrat-types, we can reckon soon enough that the entire financial markets will be hosted out of Singapore and Shanghai.