The June 2009 quarter has been one of the best in the history of Goldman Sachs , which reported a hefty 3.4 billion dollars profit due to fantastic growth in investment banking income. With literally no competition from Lehman Bros and other major players like Citigroup, Goldman Sachs got better margins on their deals and ended up making the record profits.
It has set aside 6.5 billion dollars as compensation payment for its 29000 odd employees. Who says there is recession in US ?