2008-09-27huffingtonpost.com

``I guess Paulson was lucky he could still short financial securities, since he hadn't yet become Treasury Secretary and banned the short sale of 799 financial stocks, including the short sale of Goldman Sachs (NYSE: GS). I guess he was also lucky that the "conflict of interest" rules mandated that he sell his $500 million in Goldman Sachs shares back in 2006 before accepting Bush's offer to be "executive envoy" enabled him to cash out. ''



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