When Lloyd Blankfein, Goldman Sachs’ chairman and chief executive, arrived at the Rayburn building on Capitol Hill in late 2010, he was battered and bruised. At the time his bank was viewed as a vivid example of Wall Street misbehaviour. In the previous months it had been sued by regulators, flayed by lawmakers then damaged by the passage of Dodd-Frank, a law that would curtail its freedom in the name of preventing another financial crisis.
2010年末,當高盛(Goldman Sachs)董事長兼執行長勞爾德•貝蘭克梵(Lloyd Blankfein)抵達美國國會雷伯恩(Rayburn)辦公大樓時,他很受傷。他執掌的這家銀行當時被視爲華爾街不當行爲的生動例證。之前幾個月,該銀行被監管機構起訴,遭到立法者批評,接著又因《多德-弗蘭克法》(Dodd-Frank Act)通過而受損,該法將以防範另一場金融危機爲名,限制該行的自由。