Goldman Sachs

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Goldman Sachs is a major American investment bank.

The bank's speculation in commodities markets was largely responsible for the world food shortage of 2008.[1][2]

Furthermore, the bank's founders[wp] were Jews.[3] With the decline of the Rothschilds, Goldman Sachs has become the go-to dog whistle for "Jewish banking" conspiracy theorists. This is a problem when Goldman Sachs actually does something wrong. As a major investment bank involving many business deals with hundreds of millions or billions of dollars on the table, backdoor deals and corruption are a risk. But whether GS is especially corrupt or if they just do what all the other investment banks do becomes unclear as the actual criticisms can be lost in all the bullshit.

Of course, few invoking Goldman Sachs will ever mention the good things it has done; Paul Sachs, who was friends with Booker T. Washington, helped fund the Tuskegee Institute and was involved with the Rosenwald Fund, which funded over 5000 schools for poor African-Americans, because the states weren't.[3] This may be seen as an actual "conspiracy" in the sense that some powerful rich people got together behind closed doors to do something that the public opposed.

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