Lloyd Blankfein: ‘We Haven’t Gotten Everything Right’ In his first interview in two years, Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein told CNBC Tuesday, “We haven’t gotten everything right in how we deal with the public.” The bombshell op-ed piece in the New York Times caught Blankfein off-guard, he told Squawk on the Street.  In the March 14 piece, Greg Smith, head of Goldman’s U.S. equity derivatives business in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, said the firm put its own profits ahead of clients, with some executives disparaging some clients as “muppets.” Watch the interview
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Lloyd Blankfein: ‘We Haven’t Gotten Everything Right’

In his first interview in two years, Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein told CNBC Tuesday, “We haven’t gotten everything right in how we deal with the public.”

The bombshell op-ed piece in the New York Times caught Blankfein off-guard, he told Squawk on the Street.  In the March 14 piece, Greg Smith, head of Goldman’s U.S. equity derivatives business in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, said the firm put its own profits ahead of clients, with some executives disparaging some clients as “muppets.”

Watch the interview

Source: cnbc.com