I smell a crash coming, says former Goldman Sachs boss

Lloyd Blankfein said the ‘horses are starting to whinny in the corral’ - Stephanie Keith/Getty The man who led Goldman Sachs through the 2008 financial crash says he can “smell” a fresh crisis brewing. Lloyd Blankfein said he saw parallels to the global financial crisis and saw signs the economy was getting closer to a crash. “I wonder where there’s hidden secret leverage,” he said in an interview with Pablo Salame, Citadel’s co-chief investment officer. “Now everyone says, ‘Oh, the world’s not levera ...