[vlod]

"Goldman vigorously disputes that it could not have survived if the government hadn't paid it in full"

Maybe you missed the part in the article where they said they could have survived without the money.

Also the TARP money was pretty much forced on them http://goo.gl/N7SP (businessinsider.com)

[stretchwithme]

they would have survived, but they certainly would have had a big loss without that 12 or 14 billion payoff from AIG.