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Alas, the Spitzer story is much more important than it seems.

Check this out: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/03/10/stock-exchange-cheers-new_n_90796.html?view=print

They have good reasons to cheer. Spitzer was one of the very few guys willing to take on Wall Street.

by Francois in Paris on Mon Mar 10th, 2008 at 07:53:33 PM EST
That's what makes me so angry with him.  He was one of the few to come in a long time who could really beat the shit out of big guns on Wall Street.  We could've used that right about now.

Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin
by Drew J Jones (myfriends@thisispancakes.com) on Mon Mar 10th, 2008 at 08:00:21 PM EST
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To what degree did his own failings lead him into a trap set by the Pellicanos of Wall St.  I understood they had a slew of PIs on his tail.

That's how masters of universe have fun, oder?

"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." - Anaïs Nin

by Crazy Horse on Mon Mar 10th, 2008 at 08:08:12 PM EST
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No, I think he did it himself like a grown-up.

Still, it sucks.

by Francois in Paris on Mon Mar 10th, 2008 at 09:15:51 PM EST
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It's bizarre. You don't get to where Spitzer did without being at least a little streetwise, and you would expect pretty much anything, up to and including people with machine guns.

Dropping his guard like this is ludicrous.

by ThatBritGuy (thatbritguy (at) googlemail.com) on Mon Mar 10th, 2008 at 09:49:30 PM EST
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Incredible.
That is to say, Not Credible.
There's more to this.

Capitalism searches out the darkest corners of human potential, and mainlines them.
by geezer in Paris (risico at wanadoo(flypoop)fr) on Wed Mar 12th, 2008 at 07:08:08 AM EST
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Quite likely.

Maybe it was because they were tapping Spitzer that they got onto the prostitution ring.

"Any economic unit can emit money. The serious problem is to get it accepted" Hyman Minsky

by ChrisCook (cojockathotmaildotcom) on Wed Mar 12th, 2008 at 07:20:06 AM EST
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