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Wednesday, April 28, 2010

A Goldman-Sachs Analogy

GS bottled toxic waste, labeled as VSOP Cognac. Due to underlying business relationships, and veiled conflict of interest the Appellation d'origine contrôlée certified the labeling. GS then took out life insurance policies on the buyers, and cashed in when they died.

Analogies are always imperect approximations, but this strikes me as being a direct hit on the nail head.
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