That third source is the Rolling Stone article everyone has seen a thousand times, wherein many perfectly ordinary market maneuvers are presented mixed in with

That third source is the Rolling Stone article everyone has seen a thousand times, wherein many perfectly ordinary market maneuvers are presented mixed in with a few instances of meso-level shady-looking deals, spiced with inflammatory rhetoric to make everything look bad. Then the whole parade of anecdotes and claims is cast as a sinister, company-wide conspiracy to deliberately profit off ruining the American economy, putting Goldman on the same level as the mythical Illuminati. Of the sources you could have chose to cite, that one isn't the best.