Jesus didn’t like everybody. The man so often equated with peace and love got annoyed with people. He famously chased a gaggle of businessmen out of the Jerusalem temple. He compared pharisaic lawyers to a den of poisonous snakes. On more than a few occasions, he described his own disciples as dim-witted. And to the […]
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Jesus Didn’t Work At Goldman-Sachs
In 2008, at the height of the banking crisis, Lloyd Blankfein attended a meeting with government officials about the insurance giant AIG. As chairman of Goldman-Sachs, he presided over the purchase of insurance on investments the bank knew would go bad. Along with other banks who did the same thing, they drove AIG, the world’s […]
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