Justin Fox, Columnist

They Failed a Trust Test, Then Chose Finance. Any Questions?

A study of German university students finds that those with low scores in a trust game are more likely to go to work in the financial sector. Does that matter?

How would Tim Leissner have scored in the “trust game?”

Source: Bloomberg

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Former Goldman Sachs banker Tim Leissner has been fessing up to an awful lot of dishonest behavior lately.

That’s just a brief summation from an article by Patricia Hurtado of Bloomberg News that also includes a fun bullet-pointed list of Leissner’s “Web of Lies.” For the jury in the trial of Roger Ng over his alleged role in the looting of Malaysian sovereign wealth fund 1MDB, the serial prevarications of Ng’s former boss Leissner (who already pleaded guilty) present some challenges in determining how seriously to take his testimony.