Goldman Sachs Rules The World

At least it does according to trader Alessio Rastani who, in an interview with the BBC, confesses that he dreams of recessions, [and]sees Goldman ruling the world. Remember this interview the next time someone tells you that business knows best, and that governmental regulation unfairly fetters it.



UPDATE: It has now been revealed that Rastani is not exactly who he claimed to be in the interview. According to a story carried in today's Star, he bills himself on his website as "an experienced stock market and forex trader," and later confesssed to being an "attention seeker" for whom "trading is like a hobby."

Nonetheless, his demeanour and professed beliefs seem to mirror another story entitled Traders outperform psychopaths in egocentrism and lying – but not in making money, which finds many similarities between the two, except that psychopaths seem less consistently ruthless!