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As the jackpot soars to a record $540 million, so do the hopes and dreams of people eagerly lining up to buy tickets.

The borrowed pickup truck, a crack inching its way across the windshield, lumbered into the parking lot off Sunset Boulevard a little before noon on Thursday. Diana Delmuro parked illegally, grabbed her purse and dashed inside Silversun Liquor. She slapped a crinkled dollar bill on the counter.

Passage of a $132.6 billion spending plan marked the first time since 1983 that the Legislature has approved a budget with more than a day to spare.

With Asian demand for elver eels especially high — last year’s tsunami curbed supply in Japan, and Europe has cracked down on exporting eels — a gold rush of sorts is on in Maine.

If grumbling ever becomes an Olympic sport, the United Kingdom has to be a surefire bet for gold. The level of complaints, fears and general discontent about the 30th Olympiad in London this summer has reached fever pitch,

The Gold Dust Lounge, nearly a century old, is slated to be replaced by a fashion chain store. Support has poured in for the brothers who have long run the bar. They refused to go and have filed suit.

The ceiling is painted with cherubs and voluptuous nudes, the maroon carpet so worn that one customer fondly calls the Gold Dust Lounge “classy and dirty at the same time.”

A British climber is preparing to honour an Olympic pledge by taking a very special gold medal to the summit of Mount Everest.

Testifying recently in a lawsuit that is unrelated to Copper River’s closing, its chief maintained that actions taken in the fall of 2008 by Goldman Sachs had done irreparable damage to his fund.

Greg Smith, who resigned last week via an Op-Ed in The New York Times, was said to be shopping a proposal for a book that would be a coming-of-age story and a history of Goldman Sachs.

A partnership of Deutsche Bank and NorthStar Realty Finance is emerging as the victor in the battle to control the John Hancock Center, outmaneuvering Goldman Sachs, Blackstone Group and other investors vying for the well-known Chicago skyscraper.

A Kazakh shooting gold medallist is stunned as the comedy national anthem from the film Borat is played for her victory in Kuwait instead of the real one.

The world’s biggest gold market is on strike. In India, gold sellers closed up shop last Saturday to protest the government’s decision to boost levies on sales of the precious metal.

Palladium tumbled 5.5%, while silver fell 2.7%, as weak manufacturing data from China sparked fears of lower demand for precious metals with industrial applications.

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Goldman Sachs Group Inc lost its bid to dismiss a lawsuit accusing it of defrauding investors by selling risky debt linked to subprime mortgages that it planned to bet against.

The high price of gold has brought work to hundreds of people in Elko, Nev., many of them combat veterans.

It seems like auction gold: combine pop-art icon Andy Warhol with music icon Elvis Presley and you get an exceptional piece of fine art. A piece of art that might just set you back $30 to $50 million

Mitt Romney — famous for his composure and buttoned-up demeanor — was enveloped by a throbbing, cheering crowd of Puerto Rican voters Friday night — taking the stage at an hours-long political rally to whistles, horns, pulsating beats and a shower of silver confetti.

NEW YORK (Reuters) – A person at Goldman Sachs Group Inc, who has not been identified or charged in a broad U.S. insider-trading probe, was caught on a wiretap leaking secrets about Intel Corp and Apple Inc, a lawyer for former Goldman board member Rajat Gupta said in court on Friday.

After being scolded in a recent court opinion, Goldman Sachs is considering strengthening its internal rules on disclosure to clients of bankers’ financial holdings.

(Reuters) – Several banks including Goldman Sachs have shown an interest in buying American International Group Inc’s complex and troubled assets tied to the insurer’s bailout, the Wall Street Journal said, citing people familiar with the matter.div class=feedflare
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Investment bank JPMorgan tried to contain damage to Wall Street’s reputation on Thursday by telling staff not to try to profit from rival Goldman Sachs’ embarrassment.br style=clear:both;/
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Goldman Sachs again was in a harsh spotlight when an employee resigned in a New York Times opinion piece that assailed the firm’s culture as toxic and destructive.
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LONDON/NEW YORK (Reuters) – Goldman Sachs faced an unprecedented assault from one of its own on Wednesday after a banker published a withering resignation letter in the New York Times, calling the Wall Street titan a toxic place where managing directors referred to their own clients as muppets.div class=feedflare
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Goldman Sachs Banker Publicly Quits ‘Toxic’ Firm: Will Clients Flee Next?img src=http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/time/topstories/~4/1MQGcijJ8qE height=1 width=1/

Cameron endorsement for Obama is gold dust, writes Mark Mardell

In the wake of Goldman Sachs Vice-President Greg Smith’s resignation, BBC News spoke to one of his former colleagues, Peter Kizenko, who left to set up a Russian spa.

The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission charged a former MF Global Ltd. broker with attempted manipulation of palladium and platinum futures prices, the regulator said Wednesday
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A column on the opinion pages of The New York Times decrying a culture of greed and arrogance at Goldman Sachs, one of Wall Street’s most prestigious investment banks, has Americans asking: Has anything changed on Wall Street since the financial crisis?br style=clear:both;/
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Until now, the most scathing words ever written about Goldman Sachs Group Inc. came from Matt Taibbi, the Rolling Stone reporter who famously labeled the Wall Street giant a ldquo;vampire squid.rdquo;img width=’1′ height=’1′ src=’http://latimes.com.feedsportal.com/c/34336/f/625244/s/1d6f8ff2/mf.gif’ border=’0′/br/br/a rel=nofollow target=_blank href=http://da.feedsportal.com/r/129200301493/u/49/f/625244/c/34336/s/1d6f8ff2/a2.htmimg src=http://da.feedsportal.com/r/129200301493/u/49/f/625244/c/34336/s/1d6f8ff2/a2.img border=0//aimg src=http://da.feedsportal.com/r/129200301493/u/49/f/625244/c/34336/s/1d6f8ff2/a2t.img border=0/
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