I Think the Kreisler and the Empire State Building Were a Bit of a Saxually Fetishized Piece of Architecture
Etenly, i agree with you, actually. But at the time, it was sort of dawn on a bigger scale in art deco. I still think it was actually a pretty awesome piece of organtic saveardeco, absolutely. It's really coolnd and that's ha, sort of what she fetishised in a the fountain head,. And it was a saxually, i think, a much better book thanasexary. She had a, there was a sexual aspect of that, for sure,absolutely. Nick: Where are the skyscrapers now? Well, they're not in america. When do you need scatch papers for them? Etenly
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As a $60 billion a year investment bank engaged in market making and asset management for equities, fixed income, commodity and derivative securities for large institutional clients, Goldman Sachs, having been founded in 1869, is arguably the world’s most recognizable name on Wall Street. Known for attracting some of the best financial talent, it is both respected and feared, in some cases being accused of “ripping their clients off” in the relentless pursuit of profits. Defenders of firms like Goldman Sachs make a big deal about how they’re instrumental in the efficient allocation of (financial) capital, but one could argue the concentration of highly intelligent and motivated individuals operating what amounts to a glorified casino is a gross misallocation of human capital, robbing other critical sectors of talent that would otherwise have gone to engineering real solutions, not financial ones.
