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Best comment about the Goldman Sachs brouhaha.

By Nancy Rapoport

Take a look at Steven Pearlstein's column in yesterday's Washington Post (here):

There was a time when issuers would pay a premium to have Goldman Sachs underwrite their securities, just as there was a time when investors would pay a premium to buy into a Goldman-sponsored offering.

Today, Goldman has fully monetized the value of its reputation, and anyone who pays such a premium is a fool. 

No one's said it better.  Just because something might be legal (and we don't know enough yet to know whether Goldman's acts were legal here) doesn't make it ethical--and being unethical has ramifications all its own.

Full post as published by Nancy Rapoport's Blogspot on April 29, 2010 (boomark / email).