Not just a system based on plundering the "other guys", --but a system that plunders --everyone. Incredible.
No, I take that back.
What's really apparent is that the definition of "other" -- of "fair game"-- has been stretched to include almost everyone, except a tiny club.

Chomsky's definition of "unworthy victims" now includes home owners who have a crap mortgage, ---and even encompasses Bear Sterns shareholders.

Just a whiff away from cannibalism.
Maybe they'll eat each other?

Thanks for this, Chris. An incredible detective story. How can we get real investigation? Do you agree with those who see it as a Never Happen?

Capitalism searches out the darkest corners of human potential, and mainlines them.

by geezer in Paris (risico at wanadoo(flypoop)fr) on Thu May 15th, 2008 at 06:59:57 AM EST
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geezer in Paris:
Do you agree with those who see it as a Never Happen?

I think that within a few months - once we get well into Phase Two of the ongoing Credit Crash - we will see the politicians looking for scapegoats.....

A few financiers dangling from the Senate lamp-posts will go a long way to allowing the politicians who allowed it to happen to pass the buck...

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

by ChrisCook (cojockathotmaildotcom) on Thu May 15th, 2008 at 07:28:13 AM EST
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Just think what a pleasure it would be to see a few of those very politicians dangling similarly, across the street.

Capitalism searches out the darkest corners of human potential, and mainlines them.
by geezer in Paris (risico at wanadoo(flypoop)fr) on Thu May 15th, 2008 at 07:46:02 AM EST
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