Greg Ip on Goldman Sachs, Jan Hatzius, and Ben Stein

Greg Ip:

Goldman Sachs: The Ben Stein defence | The Economist: GOLDMAN SACHS is being ripped apart in Washington for making a bundle by shorting the mortgage market while peddling products that would profit from continued housing bubble inflation. If the implication is that Goldman was somehow duplicitous, maybe it should call Ben Stein to its defence. Mr Stein, the economist, comedian, and actor, wrote a column in December 2007, in the New York Times, attacking Goldman’s chief US...