KaskadskyjKozak Posted March 14, 2012 Share Posted March 14, 2012 We are the 1% Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JayB Posted March 14, 2012 Share Posted March 14, 2012 "It astounds me how little senior management gets a basic truth: If clients don’t trust you they will eventually stop doing business with you. It doesn’t matter how smart you are." http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/14/opinion/why-i-am-leaving-goldman-sachs.html?pagewanted=2&_r=3&hp "This always had to be the endgame for reforming Wall Street. It was never going to happen by having the government sweep through and impose a wave of draconian new regulations, although a more vigorous enforcement of existing laws might have helped. Nor could the Occupy protests or even a monster wave of civil lawsuits hope to really change the screw-your-clients, screw-everybody, grab-what-you-can culture of the modern financial services industry. Real change was always going to have to come from within Wall Street itself, and the surest way for that to happen is for the managers of pension funds and union retirement funds and other institutional investors to see that the Goldmans of the world aren't just arrogant sleazebags, they’re also not terribly good at managing your money... Banking, and finance, is a business that has to be first and foremost about trust. The reason you're paying your broker/money manager such exorbitant sums is because that’s the value of integrity and honesty: You're paying for the comfort of knowing he has your best interests at heart. But what we’ve found out in the last years is that these Too-Big-To-Fail megabanks like Goldman no longer see the margin in being truly trustworthy. The game now is about getting paid as much as possible and as quickly as possible, and if your client doesn’t like the way you managed his money, well, fuck him – let him try to find someone else on the market to deal him straight. These guys have lost the fear of going out of business, because they can’t go out of business. After all, our government won’t let them. Beyond the bailouts, they’re all subsisting daily on massive loads of free cash from the Fed. No one can touch them, and sadly, most of the biggest institutional clients see getting clipped for a few points by Goldman or Chase as the cost of doing business. The only way to break this cycle, since our government doesn't seem to want to end its habit of financially supporting fraud-committing, repeat-offending, client-fleecing banks, is for these big "muppet" clients to start taking their business elsewhere." Read more: http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblog/a-goldman-executives-brave-departure-20120314#ixzz1p7ucKZRE Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ivan Posted March 14, 2012 Share Posted March 14, 2012 i've always dug that taibi-feller - he looks and talks like a pissed-off lawnmower Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
minx Posted March 14, 2012 Share Posted March 14, 2012 1%...shoot i'd like to be teh 2.7% -3.6% Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
j_b Posted March 14, 2012 Share Posted March 14, 2012 Real change was always going to have to come from within Wall Street itself You interested in that bridge for sale? Half price for you! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Frieh Posted March 14, 2012 Share Posted March 14, 2012 It should be noted Greg Smith was an 'Executive Director', not an 'Executive'. Most analysts make ED by their thirties... assuming they survive that long. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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