Financial Collapse
Financial Statesmanship for a New Economy
Submitted by Dan Thompson on Mon, 03/19/2012 - 5:18pm- Blankfein Letters
- Blankfein Letters
- Financial Collapse
- Financial Collapse
- Financial Reform
- Financial Reform
- Financial Statesmanship
- Financial Statesmanship
- Financial Systems
- Financial Systems
- Goldman Abacus
- Goldman Abacus
- Goldman Sachs
- Goldman Sachs
- Greg Smith
- Greg Smith
- JPMorgan
- JPMorgan
- LLoyd Blankfein
- LLoyd Blankfein
- Why I am Leaving Goldman Sachs
- Why I am Leaving Goldman Sachs
Author:
John Fullerton Reactions to departing Goldman derivatives salesman Greg Smith’s “Why I am Leaving Goldman Sachs,” which appeared as an op-ed in the New York Times last week, have ranged from the hyperbolic — Robert Reich’s “If you took the greed out of Wall Street, all you’d have left is the pavement” — to the addicted — Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s “we need their taxes” (my paraphrase).
Both views are problematic, as I will address. But first, some historical context:
