In July 2009, journalist Matt Taibbi invoked an indelible image when he described Goldman Sachs as “a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money.”

https://jasonzweig.com/wall-street-and-the-vampire-squid-a-b...

It would have been nice if Taibbi's understanding of the subjects he wrote about was as vivid as his writing used to be.