http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/richard-adams-blog/2010/apr/27/goldman-sachs-senate-hearing-live-blog
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Goldman Sachs chief executive Lloyd Blankfein and trader Fabrice Tourre are giving evidence to a Senate hearing on the bank's trading during the credit crisis. Follow the action live with Richard Adams
11.55am: Chairman Carl Levin rather ominously says: "We'll be here as long as it takes," in case the Goldman Sachs witnesses want to run out the clock. The Goldmans people should take that seriously, as a promise not a threat. This is the US Senate. They love talking on TV.
There is some serious A.D.D. going on here, and if you think about it, it's quite scary. Could it be the prime cause of the banking industries meltdown? Or should it be looked at as a symptom which enabled the banks to justify their disregard for a lack of ethics?
11.45am: Yikes. Susan Collins accuses the Goldmans witnesses of trying to "burn through" the committee's time, after Tourre asked her to repeat a long question
