The "Greed is Good" crowd has become truly annoying

Here, Matt Taibbi explains how the greed crowd has so far managed to avoid a full-scale revolution. (maybe)

Will Goldman Sachs prove greed is God?

The investment bank's cult of self-interest is on trial against the whole idea of civilisation – the collective decision by all of us not to screw each other over even if we can

Matt Taibbi

The Guardian, Saturday 24 April 2010

So Goldman Sachs, the world's greatest and smuggest investment bank, has been sued for fraud by the American Securities and Exchange Commission. Legally, the case hangs on a technicality.

Morally, however, the Goldman Sachs case may turn into a final referendum on the greed-is-good ethos that conquered America sometime in the 80s – and in the years since has aped other horrifying American trends such as boybands and reality shows in spreading across the western world like a venereal disease. more