I wouldn't be as comfortable. I'm not saying your judgment is misplaced; I'm just saying all these brokerage firms, including Goldman, are literal houses of cards right now, with all kinds of exotic and bizarre financial assets that are hard to understand, and even harder to assess a valuation.
Yes, that is the problem, maybe even they themselves don't know the REAL,underlying risk of their holdings
http://finance.yahoo.com/tech-ticker/article/7226/Lehman:-We're-Not-Bear,-and-We're-Not-Screwed?tickers=leh,bsc Deja vu. It's like last week when someone else said something similar.