Goldman Sachs: Risk Takers or Coup Makers?

Goldman Sachs: Risk Takers or Coup Makers?

Goldman Sachs: Risk Takers or Coup Makers?

Matt Taibb and others discuss Goldman Sachs’s record profits and how backroom deals and taxpayer dollars were used to resuscitate the banking industry.

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Matt Taibbi, Robert Johnson and Michael Lux on Goldman Sachs’s record profits, the company’s big bonus plans, and how backroom deals and taxpayer dollars were used to resuscitate the banking industry. Are they simply bold risk takers or the most brilliant financial coup makers in the history of capitalism?

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