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Jason Zweig: Wall Street And The “Vampire Squid”: A Brief History
FYI: In July 2009, journalist Matt Taibbi invoked an indelible image when he described Goldman Sachs as “a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money.”