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Update: 12:23 p.m. Blankfein had some choice quotes in his Bloomberg appearance. The most notable was jokingly adding an "S" to the economic countries known as BRIC. He told Bloomberg's Erik Schatzker, "You might have to add Silicon Valley in there." Har. Har. There was also this piece of financial wisdom: "One of the big risks we have to contemplate is that things go right."
But back to the laughs department, there's also this observation from New York's Jessica Pressler:
Wait: Did the Bloomberg guy seriously just ask *Lloyd Blankfein* "What does the average American think of when he looks at Goldman Sachs"?
— Jessica Pressler (@jpressler) April 25, 2012
Pressler's sentiment about the soft questions was echoed by one Alec Baldwin:
Watching Gary Kaminsky on CNBC interview Lloyd Blankfein.He did everything but wash Blankfein's socks.
— AB (@alecbaldwin) April 25, 2012
Original: Lloyd Blankfein, the CEO of Goldman Sachs, doesn't do live television very often but he was booked both CNBC and Bloomberg this morning, exciting financial reporters and observers.
Blankfein's morning appearances comes in the distant wake the damning New York Times editorial by former Goldman executive Greg Smith, and one day after the first portion of Frontline's Money, Power & Wall Street expose aired on PBS.