Wonder of Wonders: Greenberg and Spitzer Agree on Goldman Sachs

08/11/2009 • bNet

Talk about the best interview since “Frost-Nixon.” How about Blodget-Spitzer? Henry Blodget interviewed former New York Attorney General and Gov. Eliot Spitzer, who ran Blodget out of Wall Street. Both are bloggers/columnists, both have suffered disgrace and both are looking for redemption. And wonder of wonders, during the interview Spitzer was in agreement with yet another of his former targets, the peripatetic Hank Greenberg. The former CEO of American International Group is another in a long line of bosses who lost their jobs to Spitzer’s tough investigative tactics. Spitzer probably wouldn’t want to admit that he essentially repeated what Greenberg said last December, and which BNET Finance ran: that the real villain in the AIG bailout wasn’t Greenberg or Spitzer; it was Goldman Sachs, the investment bank whose tentacles reached into the highest levels of government.

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