Paulson has had an interesting career that includes time as Assistant to one of the key figures in the Watergate scandal, John Ehrlichman, at a time that was happening.

Isn't it interesting how the ‘Gold'man Sachs continues to be the Big Swinging Dick at the Fed, the NYSE, and the Administration (either Republican or Democrat " remember Bob Rubin).

If this were Mafioso, would the name be Gambino Sachs?

Paulson, Gotti, whatever; we still have to deal with it.

btw, before I get mail (about Gambino Sachs): my grandparents came to Philadelphia around the turn of the previous century from a small mountain town in Italy not far from Naples, called Caserta. My grandfather (Luigi Ciccarelli) came first to North America as a youngster and returned on vacation to Italy at the age of 18. Little did he think they were going to grab an American for military duty. After a couple years of duty he decided to marry a youthful Italian girl (surname Larrocha), age about 16, and they moved to Toronto, away from the possibility in the U.S. of his having to serve twice. The family of his bride had a successful business called IGA Canada (Independent Grocers) -- maybe that's where I got my need for independence -- and he went to work for Canadian Pacific Railroad. Fifty years later, they discovered that he was an illegal immigrant, and CPR wrote to Ottawa to get citizenship by Act of Parliament to go along with the customary watch etc. He used to be the keeper of the old (and warped) rails, and was known as the Old Rail man. Half a century later, his son (my Dad) bought a large property (~20 acres) on a dead end rural road called "Old Rail Road". He actually was living on Highway 2 with a fairly big property but his neighbor up back went bankrupt, so Dad also bought that place, and moved in to the house since it had a great view of Lake Ontario from the ridge plus tennis courts and indoor pool for the kids (that's me and my two brothers). I once had an employee bring me to a fortune teller, who immediately told me that the rail road was part of my history and my future. A couple years later I asked Sir John Templeton what his favorite Canadian stock was and he replied Canadian Pacific, and a couple years after that my Dad bought the place on Old Rail Road. Every word of this is true. I changed my name to Cara (dropping the cic- and -lli and changing the "e" to an "a") -- not because I didn't like the Italian association, but for efficiency sake. Nothing drives me like the need to be organized and efficient (even though in the Odd Couple, I'm the opposite of Felix). My uncle Joe changed his to Cecil -- a fine English name -- to help his financial business, and he was head of Knights of Columbus in West Toronto for years. But I figure that the "a" on the end of my name would keep me grounded to Italy. So today, my brother wrote to say that his son David Ciccarelli has acquired the url voices.com. He's been nominated for entrepreneur of the year in London Ontario for his interactivevoices.com site. It's about podcasting -- he even wrote and sold the first book -- and David has promised to help get me into podcasting properly. So there is an old rail or link in there somewhere. I grew up on Caledonia Road in Toronto -- Little Italy -- and trust me, I had enough fights over names and heritage. I'm Italian and proud of it; so no letters please.