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Felix Salmon got an email from a Goldman Sachs spokesman responding to Matt Taibbi’s lambasting of the company in Rolling Stone. (Taibbi called Goldman “the planet-eating Death Star of political influence” and accused it of engineering “every major market manipulation since the Great Depression.”) After calling Taibbi’s piece “hysterical,” the spokesman, Lucas Van Praag, told Salmon the sad news that “in the wake of the events of the past year or two, Goldman’s partners have pretty much lost their appetite for going into public service.” The horror, the horror! Whatever will we do without their enlightened leadership?
