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&lt;p&gt;Combover Carl and his senator pals on both sides of the aisle have released their final assessment about what went down to cause that little financial crisis thing a couple years back and, in not much of a surprise, the two-year investigation&#39;s findings included a lot of finger pointing and squid slapping at Lloyd Blankfein and the rest of the light-hating mollusks who allegedly have their tentacles wrapped around the countenance of the human race.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img class=&quot;embeddedObject&quot; src=&quot;http://content.screencast.com/users/dloos/folders/Jing/media/dad3089e-1490-485b-9945-5c3cf57f96f2/00000373.png&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; width=&quot;383&quot; height=&quot;204&quot; align=&quot;left&quot;&gt; Specifically, Levin said he &quot;found a financial snake pit rife with greed, conflicts of interest, and wrongdoing,&amp;rdquo; and that the pit&#39;s king cobra, Goldman Sachs, &quot;clearly misled their clients and they misled the Congress.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Others responsible for the crisis, according to the report, were Deutsche Bank, which, like Goldman, supposedly pitched and sold &quot;crappy&quot; securities that it believed were basically &quot;crap.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Also, perhaps even more at fault than the big banks, the report claims, were the big ratings firms. That is, S&amp;amp;P and Moody&#39;s were largely to blame for nearly bringing down the entire financial system. According to the report, &quot;Perhaps more than any other single event, the sudden mass downgrades of RMBS and CDO ratings were the immediate trigger for the financial crisis.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Going back to those conflicts of interest that Levin mentioned, Republican Senator Tom Coburn also noted that the investigation exposed, &amp;ldquo;without a doubt, the lack of ethics in some of our financial institutions who embraced known conflicts of interest to accomplish wealth for themselves, not caring about the outcome for their customers.&quot; Coburn added that &quot;when that happens, no country can survive and neither can their financial institutions.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;And to that I would add this: embracing &quot;known conflicts of interest to accomplish wealth for themselves&quot; is a cornerstone to every major investment bank&#39;s operations throughout not only this country but the rest of the planet as well.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;(Bloomberg: Goldman Sachs Misled Congress After Duping Clients: Levin)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;(Related: U.S. Senate vs. Lloyd Blankfein: Yesterday&#39;s Main Event on Capitol Hill)&lt;/p&gt;

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