Wall Street should hate itself

Tue, 13 Nov 2012 22:02:00 +0000

The jeers have been universal for Greg Smith’s anticipated book "Why I Left Goldman Sachs." The Wall Street tell-all is dull, the critics say: Smith only quit Goldman Sachs out of anger over pay and promotion; he is greedy; he is naive. Unsurprisingly, these reactions align with the picture Goldman Sachs itself has assiduously tried to paint of the man in the weeks leading up to the book’s publication. Together, they also say far more about the state of financial journalism today than Smith has managed to say, in an entire book, about Goldman Sachs.

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Wall Street should hate itself