Investment Bankers with Wings: Making a Killing

Listening to members of the Senate subcommittee on investigations interrogate Goldman Sachs executives, I couldn’t help but think, “chicken.” And then, “where’s the beef?”

Not because the executives parried, ducked, and even drew out their syllables (much to Sen. Susan Collins’s frustration) during their ten-hour grilling. But because the white shoe investment bank and securities firm has, in recent years, entered the messy world of global agribusiness.