Goldman Sachs With Guns

Goldman Sachs With Guns
A description of Japan’s yakuza crime syndicates based on their (now much diminished) investments in the mainstream economy.

“They made their money with sex, drugs and gambling but then invested much of it in high finance. Now Japan’s yakuza have their back to the wall as the economic crisis takes aim,” Kimiko de Freytas-Tamura reported for Agence France-Presse.

Just like the legitimate businesses they have muscled into, Japan’s mafia are being squeezed by the steepest economic downturn in decades.
An expert on Japanese organized crime, Jake Adelstein, told de Freytas-Tamura:
People think of the yakuza as wielding swords and having tattoos and missing fingers. … What you should be thinking of the modern-dayyakuza is Goldman Sachs with guns. … They are very good at gambling, and the Japanese stock market especially is like a huge casino.


Dictionary of unconsidered lexicographical trifles. 2014.

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