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New book skewers Wall Street from a different angle
The financial crisis has proven to be a cornucopia for authors and documentary film makers. We've seen a whole lot of thick books, that's for sure. The dominant genre for these books is the lightly critical journalist's take, the fly-on-the-wall approach that's driven by incredible insider access,
Rolling Stone takes on JPMorgan
Matt Taibbi, the man who coined the memorable Vampire Squid reference to Goldman Sachs ( NYSE: GS ), has turned his attention to JPMorgan Chase ( NYSE: JPM ). Writing again for Rolling Stone , he offers a long take on the Jefferson County, Alabama fiasco, for which JPMorgan has paid $50 mil
Goldman Sachs, a bank apart?
Recall the Rolling Stone description of Goldman Sachs ( GS ) as "a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money." So is that good thing or a bad thing? For some, this is a virtue, as long as the blood funn
Goldman Sachs' view on short selling?
Matt Taibi, who famously called Goldman Sachs a "great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity" in Rolling Stone, has picked a new fight with the bank. This time he's targeting the bank's lobbying efforts to keep regulation of short selling at bay. Taibi received a leak from some Con
Goldman Sachs' image takes a hit, so what?
People in the industry tend to scoff at the Goldman Sachs conspiracy theorists out there. For example, they laughed when Rolling Stone called the bank "a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money." Bu
The Goldman Sachs metaphor that stuck
Say what you want about that infamous Rolling Stone article about Goldman Sachs. It managed to come up with a metaphor that stuck: The company "is a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money."
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Rolling Stone rolls Goldman Sachs
It would be easy to dismiss the now infamous article in Rolling Stone about Goldman Sachs as the "Great American Bubble Machine." The bank was correct to some extent in labeling the article a compilation of the many conspiracy theories about the bank. But the problem for the PR folks is that t
Goldman Sachs, "the heart of darkness?"
Goldman Sachs has achieved a level of cultural significance that is reflected well in an out-there article in Rolling Stone . That's right, the same Rolling Stone that skewered AIG, recently. The same author has trained his talents on the premiere Wall Street bank and the results have the a
