“Anyone else out there find himself doubled over laughing after reading Goldman, Sachs chief Lloyd Blankfein’s ‘apology’ for his bank’s behavior leading up to the financial crisis? Has an act of contrition ever in history been more worthless and insincere? Even Gary Ridgway did a better job of sounding genuinely sorry at his sentencing hearing — and he was a guy who had sex with dead prostitutes because it was cheaper than paying live ones.”
Blankfein’s apology: “While we regret that we participated in the market euphoria and failed to raise a responsible voice, we are proud of the way our firm managed the risk it assumed on behalf of our client before and during the financial crisis.”
Taibbi deconstructs it, phrase by phrase.