Goldman Sachs' 2nd-most-powerful executive is going to be the public face of the bank for a while

Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein has disclosed he has cancer, and that he will reduce some of his previously planned travel during a period of treatment. In a letter to shareholders, Blankfein revealed that he has a "highly curable" kind of lymphoma and will undergo chemotherapy in the coming weeks in New York. Gary Cohn, chief operating officer at Goldman Sachs, will fill in for Blankfein at various public events during the period, according to a person familiar with the matter. Blankfein had ...