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Goldman Sucks

Goldman Sachs' CEO Lloyd Blankfein once said that his investment banker employees and partners are "just doing God's work". Rolling Stone's editor Matt Taibbi, on the other hand, disagrees: "The world's most powerful investment bank is a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money".

Who is right? Do we go along with Blankfein and accept that the masters of the universe are good for us and should be left more or less alone to perform the alchemy that we all ultimately benefit from? Or is Taibbi right: the firm that epitomises advanced financial capitalism also shows all that is wrong with the system, and we ought be stirred from our apathy and demand change and retribution?