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If You Had Money to Invest, Would You Let Goldman Sachs Touch Any of it?--David Frum

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Greg Smith, an executive director at Goldman Sachs, is resigning from the firm today. In a biting op-ed in today's New York Times, he explains that the firm he joined as a summer intern 12 years ago is no longer the firm he works for today. The culture of "teamwork, integrity, a spirit of humility, and always doing right by our clients" has been replaced by meetings in which the most important question, the only question, is how much the firm can make off of its clients.

In light of this, today we're wondering, "If you had money to invest, would you let Goldman Sachs touch of any of it?" Vote now on Facebook.

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