La Banque: Comment Golden Sachs dirige le monde

by Marc Roche

Goldman Sachs ? C'est aujourd'hui LA Banque.C'est aussi un vrai pouvoir dans le monde entier. Sa force ? Un goût obsessionnel du secret. Et aussi une certaine arrogance, puisqu'elle est sortie renforcée du krach de 2008 qui lui a également permis de se débarrasser de son principal concurrent, Lehman Brothers. Marc Roche, correspondant du Monde à la city de Londres depuis vingt ans, nous fait entrer dans les coulisses de ce Temple de l'argent. On y découvre les relations aussi étroites que secrètes avec certaines multinationales comme la sulfureuse compagnie BP. On apprend comment cette banque qui cultive autant les réseaux que le goût frénétique de la spéculation aide les États comme la Grèce à camoufler leurs dettes. Usant de méthodes légales mais souvent immorales, la banque organise aussi des raids d'une extrème brutalité comme l'OPA réussie en 2006 par le groupe indien Mittal sur le sidérurgiste européen Arcelor.Cette enquète très documentée et sans parti pris dévoile une puissance du capitalisme qui est l'un des rouages de la mondialisation actuelle et qui fait peur à la plupart des gouvernements. Voilà la face invisible d'un empire sur lequel le soleil ne se couche jamais.

Genres: Business, Economics, Finance, Nonfiction, Essays, Politics

320 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2010

About the author

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Marc Roche


Marc Roche est un journaliste et essayiste belge, correspondant à Londres du journal Le Monde depuis 1997. Son spécialisme est le journalisme économique.

Marc Roche is a Belgian journalist and essayist, Le Monde's correspondent for London since 1997. His is specialized in economic journalism.

Reviews

[Daniel]

Ensayo, un tanto cospiranoico, sobre el banco de inversión Goldman Sachs. Lectura fácil y agradable.

[YHC]

I have read few books about Goldman Sachs' "achievements" from the angles of Chinese writer, american writers, also followed some documentaries after 2008 financial crisis. This is the first time i read it from the angle of European writer. Sadly, it's not a conspiracy, the reality is more dramatic than fiction. The story of what they have done is not unfamiliar to all, such as helped Greece entered EU by making false GDF, which caused the crisis afterwards; one of the biggest winner of 2008 financial crisis with the Hedge funds, betting against....etc.
Why this investment bank is so big that can't be fall? Look at how deep it got involved into the politics, big sponsors for the elections, just look at how many ex-Goldman Sachs peoplet now working as head of government in US, even EU ....you know they have settle down their network so well.
Why other politicians don't react and stop them? well, most politicians have no financial background to understand what's really going on (according to Roche), or they also being part of the big party. Remember the movie " Davil's advocate", Al Pacino is like Goldman Sachs, he knows well the desire of human greed, we can not eliminate him because we have the devil all inside of us, we want the risky juicy gaining. Like Roche wrote in the end of this book: People admit they are evil, but most customers still stay with Goldman Sachs and let them handle their money, why? After all they are the smartest people and if they can make money for you, who cares about if they are evil?
(if you can be safe and sound, under the protection of devil is not totally dangerous, no?)
Roche wrote: Goldman Sachs like the Darth Vader in Star Wars. If evil doesn't exist anymore, we will resurrect it back to live. That is human paradox.

[Leon Trian]

the book takes a deep dive into many policies and norms in GS, has a lot of names and critical dates of significant economy-shifting events espeacially towards 2007/8/9 .Not gonna lie , i found it hard to continue reading through the book ,cause of the chapters. Despite being a relative small book , it has 20 chapters and a conclusion ,plus some change at the end ,the thing is that some are incredible and captivating where as others are simply there to fill pages and are very insegnificant. On the bright side , the chapters that are good and cought my attention are really good ,like the one with the greece΄s situation, the brics one , the black monday one , the M and A , the obama one and the conflincting interest΄s one are some of my highlights. Overal i want to say that its a lot of back and forth and storytelling of the past that you need to keep on top off .In conclusion this book has a lot of info ,names and dates about gs and the financial world, it has some amazing chapters and some others not worth having ,also it has some small inaccuracies about the financial products and i have the filling that because the author is not a banker it doesnt fully understand how these work . I would suggest it to anyone who wants to learn about the good , the bad and the ugly for GS (mostly the bad and the ugly lets be serious).

[Thomas]

L'histoire récente de Goldman Sachs, la firme indesctructible même pendant cette crise de 2008. On imagine une adaptation réussie sous forme de série télévisée, entre Damages et Wall Street. Le livre souffre cependant d'un excès de vulgarisation et d'un manque de fil conducteur qui rendent abscons des idées et des opérations financières qui auraient méritées d'être éclaircies. L'auteur n'hésite pas à enfoncer des portes ouvertes et à ressasser de bons vieux clichés éculés sur le monde passionnant de la finance internationale. Mais le tout ne manque pas d'intérêt.

[Luis]

It introduces us to the world of Goldman Sachs, showing how people related to this bank are spread across the most important places in the world (political and non political). It also teaches you a few financial terms. It's a good introduction to this theme!

[Gert]

This is truly an amazing book. A must read for everyone who is concerned by the financial crisis and wants to know who had a big part in it.

[Luís Caçador]

Muito interessante..ainda n acabei :)

[Olivier Saint-vincent]

Brillant. Marc Roche fait dans le roman docu fiction reportage...

[Borja de la haza acuaviva]

Buen trabajo de investigación

[Drew]

eye-opening, highly recommendable.

[Mazen Alloujami]

Un livre très important, à lire pour découvrir comment le système financier international fonctionne.

[Libros Imprescindibles]

Interesante, aunque se queda un pelín corto en su análisis