Taleb, Roubini, and J. Paulson were huge winners as they foresaw and warned about the financial crisis publicly while profiting from it. Fuld, Cayne, and Greenberg were total losers as they were blinded by greed, took big risks, and collapsed their venerable firms. Ben Bernanke was a winner as the short-term effects of his decisive policies have eclipsed his earlier cluelessness. Obama was a loser as he threw hundreds of billions to Wall Street despite being elected on a promise of change. Goldman Sachs was also a loser as it went from an elite firm to a "vampire squid". H. Paulson and Rubin were losers as their pro-

1. Reputations One Year Later: Winners and Losers

2. Huge Winners Taleb, Roubini, J. Paulson Foresaw crisis coming, warned about it publicly, made lots of money being right.

3. Total Losers Fuld, Cayne, Greenberg Blinded by greed, took crazy risks and blew up their venerable firms.

4. Winner Ben Bernanke Cluelessness prior to financial crisis now eclipsed by salutory short-term effects of decisive, creative policies

5. Loser Obama Elected on promise of change, instead throws hundreds of billions to Wall St and hopes they police themselves.

6. Loser Goldman, Sachs Once ultimate status symbol as home for best and brightest, now a vampire squid.

7. Loser H. Paulson, Rubin Any pretense of public service shattered by banana republic-like pro Goldman policies.

8. Winner China What crisis? GDP growth back to 8%!

9. Winner George Bush Responsible for Iraq War, world's first trillion dollar blunder. After last year, the waste of a trillion dollars now totally unremarkable.