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,当高盛(Goldman Sachs)董事长兼首席执行官劳尔德•贝兰克梵(Lloyd Blankfein)抵达美国国会雷伯恩(Rayburn)办公大楼时,他很受伤。他执掌的这家银行当时被视为华尔街不当行为的生动例证。之前几个月,该银行被监管机构起诉,遭到立法者批评,接着又因《多德-弗兰克法》(Dodd-Frank Act)通过而受损,该法将以防范另一场金融危机为名,限制该行的自由。