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From NY Times: Why I Am Leaving Goldman Sachs

From NY Times: Why I Am Leaving Goldman Sachs

By Greg Smith

“People who care only about making money will not sustain this firm — or the trust of its clients — for very much longer.”

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. Click for more

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American drivers “aren’t good enough to think they belong on the Botto-bahn sailing all the way to Berlin.” Show Log For Wednesday March 14 2012

Tonight Bob Bellweather, a reporter on scene at that courthouse shooting in Beaumont, TX, tells Phil he doesn’t like using the term “hero” because it makes people who aren’t heroes feel small and worthless.

Lloyd Bonafide of Alhambra, Ca. talked to Phil about how he wants the speed limit lowered all over the US because American drivers “aren’t good enough to think they belong on the Botto-bahn sailing all the way to Berlin.”

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A guy with really big ears driving a Mini-Cooper would send him into a murderous rage. Show Log For Tuesday March 13, 2012

General Gaylen Shaw’s proposed changes to the interstate commerce laws governing truck traffic didn’t go over too well tonight. The General wants an enforced one month “sabbatical” for all truckers in order that they be evaluated psychologically. As a young man driving trucks General Shaw fantisized about running someone off the road and into an “oil tank farm.” He also had a problem with the kinds of silhouettes he saw through the rear window. A guy with really big ears driving a Mini-Cooper would send him into a murderous rage. Dr. Jim Sadler called in and he happens to be just such a guy….

With Dr. Jim Sadler, Debbie Dailey and Bobbie Dooley