Seen on the street in Kyiv.

Words of Advice:

"If Something Seems To Be Too Good To Be True, It's Best To Shoot It, Just In Case." -- Fiona Glenanne

“The Mob takes the Fifth. If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -- Trump

"Foreign Relations Boil Down to Two Things: Talking With People or Killing Them." -- Unknown

“Speed is a poor substitute for accuracy.” -- Real, no-shit, fortune from a fortune cookie

"Thou Shalt Get Sidetracked by Bullshit, Every Goddamned Time." -- The Ghoul

"If you believe that you are talking to G-d, you can justify anything.” — my Dad

"Colt .45s; putting bad guys in the ground since 1873." -- Unknown

"Stay Strapped or Get Clapped." -- probably not Mr. Rogers

"The Dildo of Karma rarely comes lubed." -- Unknown

"Eck!" -- George the Cat

Karma may sometimes be late to arrive.
But it never loses an address.

Wednesday, September 10, 2008

Bring the Next Steer into the Financial Slaughterhouse

Next up on the killing floor: Lehman Brothers.

So a day after the markets are happy because Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are being bailed out, it's back to the n0w-usual deathwatch of another venerable financial institution.

I wonder if there is a commonality to all this, in that I wonder if these institutions threw aside human risk analysis in favor of computer modeling. I wonder if anyone was paying attention to how the computer modeling programs worked, rather than just looking at the output.

I have no idea, I'm just wondering.

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