---
id: "entity-goldman-sachs"
type: "entity"
entityType: "organization"
canonicalName: "Goldman Sachs"
aliases: ["Goldman", "\"Goldman Sachs Group", "Inc.\""]
source_timestamps: ["00:15:00"]
tags: ["wall-street", "investment-bank"]
related: ["entity-aig", "concept-counterparty-risk"]
sources: ["wallstlie"]
sourceVaultSlug: "10x-darkside-bitcoin-systemic-collapse-2026Jun25"
originDay: 8
---
# Goldman Sachs

## Profile

Goldman Sachs is a major U.S. investment bank and one of the most influential financial institutions globally.

## Role in This Vault

[[entity-scott-darkside]] uses Goldman as the **canonical counterparty example** in his explanation of [[concept-counterparty-risk]]. Goldman had purchased substantial Credit Default Swap protection from [[entity-aig]] on mortgage-related securities. AIG's impending failure would have imposed large losses on Goldman, effectively making the AIG bailout a *de facto* rescue of Goldman.

## Why It Matters

The AIG → Goldman channel demonstrates how the **interconnected web** of derivative exposures forces governments to bail out individual institutions in order to save the wider system — a textbook case of [[concept-wall-street-looting]] in practice.