#473 — Money, Power, and Moral Failure

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If you enjoyed what we're doing here and find it valuable, please consider subscribing today. I'm here with Lloyd Blankfein. Lloyd, thanks for joining me on the podcast. Well, thanks for having me, Sam. So you you've written a memoir, uh, Streetwise, which uh is incredibly fun to read and uh an education for anyone who doesn't know much about finance.

And um, I'm just I'm gonna ask you some questions about it. I mean, I I'm especially interested to understand the lessons we should have drawn from the 2007, 2008 financial crisis, which you uh steered Goldman Sachs through, um, which was uh high stress and high stakes and um an achievement for which you were both celebrated and vilified. So yeah, I mean you you have a very interesting story because you came up from, I mean, you were you were a Jew living in the projects.

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