| | Kurt: Merlin you know it was a joke right? You might be correct given the author was Michael Lewis, but I didn't get that impression. The statement was given as part of a refutation of rumor no. 2: “When the U.S. government bailed out AIG, and paid off its gambling debts, it saved not AIG but Goldman Sachs.” Lewis preceded it with "The charge isn’t merely insulting but ignorant." (Goldman Sachs received the $12.9 billion by being a counterparty to AIG on credit default swaps.) Also, at my last job less than $1 million was often considered insignificant.
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We at Goldman represent unicque clusters of DNA...A shared disinterest in growing hair, for instance, isn't a coincidence of nature but an expression of healthy like-mindedness. 'The world is a pool table', our naked headed CEO likes to tell us. 'And all the people in it are either strips or solids. You alone are the cue balls'.
