 He gave Schroeder’s team an early draft and suggested they downgrade MBIA, but they initially resisted.Schroeder and her colleague Vinay Saqi eventually responded to Ackman’s report, partially acknowledging Ackman’s thesis.On November 30, 2009, Schroeder published an opinion piece on Bloomberg News stating that several Goldman Sachs bankers, in a show of prescience about potential social unrest, had obtained pistol permits.