Third, financial markets and financial firms have become a nexus of conflicts of interest that must be unwound. These conflicts are inbuilt, because firms that engage in commercial banking, investment banking, proprietary trading, market making and dealing, insurance, asset management, private equity, hedge-fund activities, and other services are on every side of every deal (the recent case of Goldman Sachs was just the tip of the iceberg).
第三，金融市场和金融公司已经成为编织起无数利益冲突的一团乱麻。这些利益冲突成了金融体系的内在顽疾，因为那些同时从事商业银行、投资银行、私募股权、对冲基金和其他种种业务的公司，在所有的交易中都多方下注。最近高盛的案子只不过是冰山一角。