📖 Why I Left Goldman Sach: A Wall-Street Story

On March 14, 2012 more than three million people read Greg Smith's op-ed in the Neiv York Times titled "Why I Am Leaving Goldman Sachs." It hit a nerve among the general public who question the role of Wall Street in society-and the callous "take-the-money-and-run" mentality that brought the world economy to its knees a few short years ago. Smith now picks up where that op-ed left off. His story begins in the summer of 2000, when an idealistic twenty-one-year-old arrives as an intern at Goldman Sachs and learns about Business Principle #1: Our clients' interests ahiays come first. This remains Smith's mantra as he rises from intern to analyst to sales trader, with clients controlling assets of more than a trillion dollars. Smith describes in page-turning detail how the most storied investment bank on Wall Street went from taking iconic companies like Ford, Sears, and Microsoft public to becoming a "vampire squid" that called its clients "muppets" and paid the government a record...