Goldman Sachs was one of the investment banks involved in the
2008 financial crisis. It sold mortgage backed securities, called
collateral debt obligations (CDOs) to thousands of investors. Its
employees reaped lucrative commissions selling CDOs.
Four years after the crisis, Greg Smith, head of Goldman Sachs’
U.S. equity derivatives business in Europe, Africa and the Middle
East, resigned. He wrote an opinion piece, published in the New
York Times on March 14, 2012, about his resignation after 12 years
with...