Greed and Capitalism

What kind of society isn't structured on greed? The problem of social organization is how to set up an arrangement under which greed will do the least harm; capitalism is that kind of a system.
- Milton Friedman

Friday, October 28, 2011

Goldman and the Bubble


The Great American Bubble Machine | Politics News | Rolling Stone:
"Goldman Sachs is everywhere. 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. In fact, the history of the recent financial crisis, which doubles as a history of the rapid decline and fall of the suddenly swindled dry American empire, reads like a Who's Who of Goldman Sachs graduates."


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Illustration by Victor Juhasz


From tech stocks to high gas prices, Goldman Sachs has engineered every major market manipulation since the Great Depression -- and they're about to do it again
 


BY MATT TAIBBI

Read more: http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/the-great-american-bubble-machine-20100405#ixzz1c6pH24YT

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