Sure, running the pre-eminent investment bank on Wall Street is a blast. A market cap of nearly $100 billion, the power to create vast fortunes, enough economic clout to privatize a Balkan nation—it doesn’t get any better than that. Unless you’re Henry Paulson. In that case, nothing you ever did as the CEO of Goldman, Sachs & Co. could possibly be any better than going before Congress and offering your “best guesstimate” about how long it will take to run up nearly $9 trillion in debt.—Jeffrey Kanige
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