At first I thought it was a joke. Goldman Sachs, the epitome of greed and power, wants to look after the little people. Bigwigs from the bank‘s offices in the City of London have been in touch with the European Commission about initiatives that seem to be of a social nature, according to internal documents that I‘ve seen.

Then it dawned on me that the idea wasn‘t as fanciful as it appeared. If there‘s a whiff of money in the air, then the “vampire ...