Showing posts with label vampire squid. Show all posts
Showing posts with label vampire squid. Show all posts

Friday, 23 April 2010

Tip for Tett

The FT's Gillian Tett today makes the now common mistake, when she says that clients are "risking the wrath of the giant Vampire Squid".
The actual phrase used by Matt Taibbi about Goldman Sachs was "great vampire squid". Surely if you steal other people's work, it's best to at least get it right...

Monday, 9 November 2009

Blankcheque threads his way through the eye of a needle

Goldman Sachs boss Lloyd Blankcheque says that he's doing "God's work" impersonating a great vampire squid. But which God?
Blankfein is, himself, Jewish, but is not adverse to schmoozing those with lines into the other major religious brands.
On Pope Benedict's trip to the US last year, His Excellency dropped in for the first ever papal visit to a US synagogue and met Jewish "leaders" including private-equity billionaire Stephen Schwarzman as well as the Goldman boss.
So, is Blankfein hedging his bets?