Heads I win, tails you lose
正面我赢，反面你输
Oct 20th 2009
From Economist.com
Why Wall Street needs a new social contract
为何华尔街需要一个新的社会契约
EVER since Rolling Stone magazine described Goldman Sachs in July as a “a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money,” the investment bank has emerged as the favourite piñata(1) for anyone who wants to give Wall Street a mighty thwack. Lloyd Blankfein, the investment bank’s chief executive, may be right, as he recently told The Economist, that vampire squids, which really do exist in the depths of the ocean, are “small and harmless”. Yet his firm and the industry of which it is now the reluctant face have a real image problem, which they need to deal with before it turns into something nastier.
自从《滚石》杂志7月份将高盛形容为“包裹在人类面部上的吸血乌贼，无情地将其吸血管插向任何带有钱味的物体”以来，这家投行对于任何希望给华尔街有力一击的人而言已然成了深受喜爱的皮纳塔玩具。高盛的首席执行官劳埃德·布兰克费恩也许是对的。他最近在接受《经济学人》采访时称，确实存在于海底深处的吸血乌贼“小而无害”。然而他的公司以及整个行业都存在形象问题，它们需要提早应对，以免形象变得更令人憎恶。
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