seems to be some truth in his statement but one article is one man's opinion...

Matt Taibbi response to criticism of his article:

http://trueslant.com/matttaibbi/2009/06/30/on-giving-goldman-a-chance/

They are the Iluminati, you know. They also were behind the Roswell cover up,
the Kennedy assassination, and bankrolled Osama Bin Laden. I'm sure they
planned for their stock to plummet 80% and to be victimized by the naked short
sellers that drove down the rest of the bank stocks to artificially low levels.
They also pushed Greenspan to keep interest rates too low and mortgage brokers
to give loans to people who were doomed to default almost immediately or when
the ARMs reset to double digit rates.

While I will not argue that GS can and has manipulated situations to profit from
them. I find it impossible for them to have controlled the bubbles once they
started, just too many moving parts.