Comments on: Goldman Sachs, vampire squid

By: mvosbein

mvosbein — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 20:13:49 +0000

Goldman has lost sight of the greater good of the country and has focused solely on greed. The great intelligence there has no conscience or sense of belonging to this country. Captialism is good when it has a conscience. Goldman clearly has none.

By: Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein apologizes and says he's sorry - The Curious Capitalist - TIME.com

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 19:01:54 +0000

[...] So, what do you say? Could it be time to forgive the vampire squid? [...]

By: Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein yaks it up with Fortune's Andy Serwer - The Curious Capitalist - TIME.com

Fri, 16 Oct 2009 15:42:20 +0000

[...] of a mensch than your average CEO. Serwer opened with, "We were going to serve calamari because squid is associated with Goldman Sachs." Blankfein laughed and said, "How long were you thinking of that?" Serwer observed that Blankfein [...]

By: There’s A Lot To Say About Goldman Sachs And Everybody’s Saying It « Around The Sphere

Sat, 22 Aug 2009 17:17:37 +0000

[...] “A recent story in Rolling Stone, of all places, in which the author described Goldman as a “great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity,” has been particularly troubling to him. “Oddly enough, the Rolling Stone article tapped into [...]

By: Willem Buiter doesn't think Larry Summers should be Federal Reserve chairman - The Curious Capitalist - TIME.com

Fri, 31 Jul 2009 20:31:49 +0000

[...] but then we could have a financial system run by a fruit fly and a vampire squid. What fun! (Especially since it turns out that both are harmless to [...]

By: Rassembler 14 Juillet «

Rassembler 14 Juillet « — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 17:26:27 +0000

[...] (I long ago realized the anaylitcal poverty of words like f#%! and a#%hole) I’m not as inclined as Justin Fox to dismiss much of Taibbi’s discusion. (And congrats to Justin and Barbara for being named by Wall Street Journal as one of the top 25 [...]

By: Goldman is a little bit pregnant Abnormal Returns

Goldman is a little bit pregnant Abnormal Returns — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 14:10:10 +0000

[...] market making that has become more profitable as its competitors pull back. Justin Fox at the Curious Capitalist writes: At Goldman the focus has been on hiring the smartest group of people employed by any [...]

By: Justin Fox

Justin Fox — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 22:12:36 +0000

@pneogy: Talk to most anybody in the corporate recruiting sphere and they'll say Goldman is the greatest single magnet for the most talented young grads. This admittedly relies on very a narrow definition of "talent." @Sean DeCoursey: You could also call that phenomenon "loyalty." Which doesn't make it look any less creepy/unfair from the outside, of course.

By: Judging Goldman - The Opinionator Blog - NYTimes.com

Judging Goldman - The Opinionator Blog - NYTimes.com — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 20:47:27 +0000

[...] at Time, Justin Fox admitted he had in fact gone underground to get the “samizdat” PDF of Taibbi’s article: Thanks to the persistence and assistance of commenter audiospaceship, I [...]

By: Wednesday links: bonus backlash brewing Abnormal Returns

Wednesday links: bonus backlash brewing Abnormal Returns — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 16:45:31 +0000

[...] is just better than their competition. (Curious Capitalist, [...]