Chairman Lloyd C. Blankfein, of Goldman Sachs commercial bank, says in an interview with the London Sunday Times  that he is “doing God’s work.  We’re very important.  We help companies to grow by helping them to raise capital.  Companies that grow create wealth.  This … allows people to have jobs that create more growth and more wealth.  We have a social purpose.”

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References:

I’m doing ‘God’s work’. Meet Mr [sic] Goldman Sachs – Times Online
www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article6/9076/81.ece

Goldman Sachs chief says ‘we do God’s work’ as he defends the bank’s bumper profits Mail Online
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1226/114/Goldman-Sachs-chief-says-Gods-work-defends-banks-bumper-profits.html/?ITO=1490#ixzz0WZDHIPHE

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