Even without being familiar with the opaque world of Wall Street investment banks, it is difficult not to be aware about Goldman Sachs. Since the Global Financial Crisis they have become the bank everyone loves to hate.
The way they became ‘too big to fail’ by benefiting from every single economic bubble since the Great Depression [...]
Of course Julia Gillard’s impassionate tirade against Tony Abbott’s sexism was political point scoring. However the unpredictable way the video went viral abroad means that it can genuinely be enjoyed in isolation from the Australian context.
Of course blogger @Get_Shortened is right when dismissing this as “just a load of politics“. That “If the woman who [...]
It is often argued that financial markets are not like the real economy. But when Wall Street is opposed to Main Street it is mostly along the argument that greedy financiers are making money while real people struggle in lower paid jobs. And the world would a better place if bankers were not immoral greedy [...]
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