draghi/Goldman Sachs Draghi as Caesar’s wife

Draghi as Caesar’s wife: If somebody wants to clean up a pigsty, there must be no suspicion that he is himself a pig. Through the sale of his shares in Goldman Sachs, Mario Draghi has put himself beyond suspicion. If the incoming governor of the Bank of Italy had stayed a Goldman shareholder, he would have found it hard to take the moral high ground. Any decision Draghi took which affected a Goldman client would have opened him up to a whispering campaign. Was he showing favouritism in order to...