The political connections that earned Goldman the sobriquet Government Sachs have been loosened by the crisis. (Jon Corzine, pictured right above, who was appointed Goldman's CEO in 1994, was for a while governor of New Jersey and his successor, Henry Paulson, left, went on to become President George Bush's treasury secretary.) A press that once put Goldman on a pedestal prefers today to putthebootin.
There were fears at the end of 2001, when Argentina was again in an economic pickle, that the army might putin its boot once more, but the current relative stability has eased such tensions.