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I am a banker. Some of us did not f*ck up. | 44 comments (44 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/3/28/714009/-I-am-a-banker.-Some-of-us-did-not-f*ck-up.

In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes

by Jerome a Paris (etg@eurotrib.com) on Sat Mar 28th, 2009 at 12:32:37 PM EST

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Recommended there, recommended here...

by Plutonium Page (page dot vlinders at gmail dot com) on Sat Mar 28th, 2009 at 12:41:09 PM EST
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Re: Crossposted on dKos (4.00 / 2)

Good diary, and it gets to a point that others have made elsewhere about different types of banking, too. Many of our community and regional banks -- many FDIC-insured -- behaved well enough, doing the old-school, 30-year fixed rate mortgages; small business loans; etc. Yet we're now penalizing them by propping up the Wall Street fatcats.

And the ones who've been hit by the credit squeeze, despite not engaging in the mass psychosis of the last 10 years, haven't gotten shit. All the money went to people who were on a first-name basis with the GTP and Frodo.

Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin

by Drew J Jones (myfriends@thisispancakes.com) on Sun Mar 29th, 2009 at 10:16:20 AM EST
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I am a banker. Some of us did not f*ck up. | 44 comments (44 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

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