Vampire Squid - in Popular Culture

In Popular Culture

A 2010 Rolling Stone article by Matt Taibbi likened investment bank Goldman Sachs to "a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money." This comparison was later used by other critics of Goldman Sachs, such as the Occupy Wall Street movement.

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