Matt Taibbi’s description of Goldman Sachs being ” a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money” seems to have really captured the world’s attention (at least if this Google news search is anything to go by).
Here at FT Alphaville we have pondered why that might be with the following selection of handpicked illustrations.
1) What an actual vampire squid looks like according to Wikipedia:
2) A photo of a vampire squid from a Google search:
3) Darth Vader:
4) A gigantic magnetic force wrapped around the face of humanity (which looks like a squid):
5) Magnetic money-sucking (which also looks a bit like a squid):
Related links:
The Great American Bubble Machine – Rolling Stone
Vampire Squid search – Google News
GS Part of the Coming Cephalopod Kingdom? - Long or Short Capital