In the space of a week, Facebook has gone from inking a deal with Goldman Sachs for a special purpose vehicle that would allow for investment in the company without financial disclosure, to a pledge to either go public in 2012 or submit all its financial disclosure information publicly. Facebook is more of a retailer [...]

Two weeks ago, if you told me I’d be writing the above headline, I’d think I must have been hired by The Yes Men to do one of those “imagine the possible” fake New York Times articles. But no, this is actually happening: The Securities and Exchange Commission has referred its investigation of Goldman Sachs [...]