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Ursprungligen postat av Rutendo
Nejdå, guld är världens bästa investering. Bara att köra in alla pengar du har i guld. Guld kommer att stiga i all oändlighet, som sagt 2012 är året då draken viftar på svansen och guldpriset ökar exponentiellt.
Aristotle, 2012-03-14:
Aristotle said...
Why I Am Leaving Goldman Sachs
by Greg Smith
TODAY is my last day at Goldman Sachs. After almost 12 years at the firm — first as a summer intern while at Stanford, then in New York for 10 years, and now in London — I believe I have worked here long enough to understand the trajectory of its culture, its people and its identity. And I can honestly say that the environment now is as toxic and destructive as I have ever seen it.
To put the problem in the simplest terms, the interests of the client continue to be sidelined in the way the firm operates and thinks about making money. Goldman Sachs is one of the world’s largest and most important investment banks and it is too integral to global finance to continue to act this way. The firm has veered so far from the place I joined right out of college that I can no longer in good conscience say that I identify with what it stands for.
It might sound surprising to a skeptical public, but culture was always a vital part of Goldman Sachs’s success. It revolved around teamwork, integrity, a spirit of humility, and always doing right by our clients. The culture was the secret sauce that made this place great and allowed us to earn our clients’ trust for 143 years. It wasn’t just about making money; this alone will not sustain a firm for so long. It had something to do with pride and belief in the organization. I am sad to say that I look around today and see virtually no trace of the culture that made me love working for this firm for many years. I no longer have the pride, or the belief.
... When the history books are written about Goldman Sachs, they may reflect that the current chief executive officer, Lloyd C. Blankfein, and the president, Gary D. Cohn, lost hold of the firm’s culture on their watch. I truly believe that this decline in the firm’s moral fiber represents the single most serious threat to its long-run survival.
Over the course of my career I have had the privilege of advising two of the largest hedge funds on the planet, five of the largest asset managers in the United States, and three of the most prominent sovereign wealth funds in the Middle East and Asia. My clients have a total asset base of more than a trillion dollars. I have always taken a lot of pride in advising my clients to do what I believe is right for them, even if it means less money for the firm. This view is becoming increasingly unpopular at Goldman Sachs. Another sign that it was time to leave. ---[be sure to read it all]
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As simple as it sounds, our very own CULTURE (and its trajectory) has in modern times been one of the most significant hurdles in gold's pathway towards reclaiming its prominence specifically within our ranks here in Western Civilization. Like a fish that has no relative sense of the all-encompassing water in which it swims (until it is perhaps jerked from that system by a skillful angler), many people remain deep over their eyeballs in an increasingly digital/virtual world (facebook friends, cell-text relations, all things financial) and are naturally clueless or resistant to the bizarre notion that there is something like air up there and dry solid land existing just beyond their daily scope of experiences.
This public OpEd piece is a good wake up call for our sleepy culture. It's good to be roused from bed. Gather up the last easy bits of your treasure seeking exploits... the next 24 months will bring reverberations through our (global) culture as profoundly as is yet possible in this largely jaded and detached age of ours. Even now, can you hear the distant pulsing of air beneath the dragon's wings?
Gold. Get you some. --- Aristotle
Rutendo, min vän, can you hear it?