Jon, anyone who has followed Goldman in any depth for any length of time would raise the same question. It’s completely conceivable that the same bank who counts Trump cabinet members Gary Cohn, Dina Powell, Steve Bannon and Steve Mnuchen as alumni, who was incredulously paid 100 cents on the dollar for AIG credit default swaps while their ex CEO was treasury secretary; who went radio silent during the epicenter of the housing meltdown and miraculously emerged with a huge short position on subprime securities. That bank. It’s completely conceivable that they would launch an influencer campaign with bloggers like yourself. In the grand scheme of Goldman charm offensives it wouldn’t even register on the Richter scale. I trust you when you say that didn’t happen and that you were genuinely intrigued by them. They are genuinely intriguing. And you always come across with honesty and integrity.
But I’ve covered Goldman for 16 years. First as a Wall St. Analyst and later as an observer. They have a long, long track record of turning out honest brokers.
