WHEN IT COMES TO ITS ROLE IN THE FINANCIAL CRISIS, GOLDMAN SACHS HAS A MESSAGE FOR THE WORLD: NOT GUILTY. NOT ONE LITTLE BIT

摘要

The bankers at Goldman Sachs, by traditional measures, ought to be on top of the world. Eighteen months removed from the depths of the financial crisis, Goldman posted a $13.4 billion profit in 2009, a Wall Street record. When Chief Executive Officer Lloyd Blankfein went on a recruiting trip to Stanford, he was greeted by an overflow crowd. Goldman cast off its Troubled Asset Relief Program yoke and proceeded to pay its employees more than $16 billion. The firm is moving into a new $2.1 billion headquarters on the Hudson River. Goldman's reputation with its clients-who must have at least $10 million to open an account-has never been better. Among the general public, however, the perception is that Goldman is the toxic epicenter of everything wrong with Wall Street.