@avclub-3db41011acc2d229176bf6a92202728d:disqus , yes, it's more than Wall St, but two things:
- our Justice Department can't arrest international investment firm CEOs
- GS and JPM are global companies that did more damage than all the other international financial firms. I mean, fuck, GS is who helped Greece hide their…

@avclub-d009e8b6ce98ad61a7b7a69cd1ad10d9:disqus , fraud is illegal, especially when you sell it to retirement funds and governments around the world. It's a criminal activity that inflated and burst the global economy. The AAA rating is supposed to protect the buyer. When your brand new car's breaks fail do you yell,…

dammit. you're probably right. That quiet-looking crowd must be at a cheap circus.

I can't tell if you got the Scheherazade ref or not (I'd get to have sex with her).

I forgot some people buy a home before moving to a new city. Great way to find out that you hate where you live a year later. I think the smart move is to rent until you get the hang of the place—I was projecting.

substantial cerebral flatulence on my part all around. I'll light a match.

speculating from that trailer, you get to:
- fly a jet right through downtown LA
- get your house foreclosed on
- hire illegal migrant labor and then gas 'em to skipout on paying them

I'd let Nicole Scheherazade tell me a bedtime story every night.

jesus christ, look at the size of that fucking crowd behind them.  Are these people so starved for attention that they want to watch industrial sadness like X Factor live?  There's no way they're hired extras. Too many of 'em.

thanks! I'll check it out. This sort of stuff is super funny. I kind of love books that humble humans and show us how illogical we are at most times.
It's funny, but part of my job deals in providing probabilities to people in business and government. Perfectly logical, mathematical probabilities that are founded on…

check out the blog. it's pretty interesting.

Wall St is what tanked the world economy. We don't need them.

they sold fraudulently AAA rated securities across the planet, and then hedged against those securities. It's not a matter of greed, to me, but a matter of criminal activity.

@GhaleonQ:disqus , Disqus makes it hard to answer your question, but yes, if he committed a crime he should be punished. It's funny and scary, but he was likely going to be the next US Treasury head. Will it deter bad trading? nope. But what he did and what the banks and GS and JPM did are different. He made a dumb…

probably right.

yeah, there's lots of other things that could use fixing, like the insane income disparity and basically moving our blue collar work overseas, etc, etc, but these things pale in comparison to what unchecked Wall St criminals do to America.

it's not an article, it's a New Yorker cartoon. Lautner doesn't understand the cartoon. He just likes the kitty.

I kind of love capitalism, so I don't agree that the system is at fault. I just think that there is 0 law enforcement of the system.

they are protesting the double standard: that we are held accountable for our crimes but Wall St CEOs are not held accountable for theirs: when they knowingly sell bad securities, hedge against their own customers, and leverage their fraudulent assets to the point that their crooked investments collapse and take down…

you put a single Wall St CEO in bang-you-in-the-ass prison for 10 years and Wall St will clean up its act in a heartbeat. It's because no one goes to jail, or real jail, that these guys know they can cheat and never be punished.  The Madoff's don't count because they are not the CEOs of the financial institutions that…