Goldman Sachs is once again being cited for ripping off its clients, this time in the IPO space. Goldman had already paid massive fines for causing the mortgage crisis by selling its own clients toxic assets. Later the firm would take considerable reputational damage when a former Goldman Sachs executive, Greg Smith, wrote an Op-Ed for the New York Times where he claimed Goldman employees routinely took advantage of the firm’s clients and enjoyed mocking them afterwards

So I hear that Richard Trumka is personally outraged by the JOBS Act, and the larger idea that “this administration thinks that it’s going to be good for the country to re-inflate a stock market bubble.” This didn’t deter Trumka’s AFL-CIO from endorsing the President who signed that bill for re-election, of course. “Labor weighs a number of factors in their election endorsements,” is the imagined reply I can see myself getting from a labor operative minutes after this post is published. And that’s fine.

Yves Smith points us to a nice takedown of the woeful JOBS Act, which should get signed into law this week. Chris Hayes had Bill Black and Alexis Goldstein of Occupy the SEC on to talk about it, with Rep. Carolyn Maloney making a (weak) defense. It really was no contest.

Today the Senate will vote on the JOBS Act, part of a deal on judicial confirmations that allows the House-passed bill to come to the floor. The Senate will vote on a substitute amendment which could upend the entire bill. And let’s hope so! As Simon Johnson points out, the JOBS Act is a simply terrible idea which strips investor protections and deregulates the a part of the financial sector.

Wow, the JOBS Act can pass! I guess we’ll all have jobs soon. Wait, what’s that acronym? Jump-starting Our Business Startups (isn’t that J-SOBS, really)? So what’s that all about?

When Steven Rattner published this piece on the GM IPO in HuffPo, he had not yet been sued by NY’s Attorney General for allegedly being “willing to do whatever it took to get his hands on pension fund money including paying kickbacks, orchestrating a movie deal, and funneling campaign contributions,” nor had he yet settled–with no admission of guilt–the SEC investigation that alleges he, “delivered special favors and conducted sham transactions that corrupted the Retirement Fund’s investment process.” Thus, it would go too far to call the Steven Rattner that published that piece a fraudster, or even an alleged fraudster.

But a big part of this victory lap is fraudulent.