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Loan securitisation really seems to be at the centre of the current crisis.

Most economists teach a theoretical framework that has been shown to be fundamentally useless. -- James K. Galbraith
by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Sat Mar 28th, 2009 at 03:08:11 PM EST
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Abstraction is at the centre of the crisis - the bizarre practice of deliberately disconnecting the finance economy from the real economy, so that meta-money becomes tradeable in its own right.

Securitisation is a symptom of that. The other side of abstraction is social disconnection. As long as your trading profits look good you don't have to care about the people you've made unemployed or the businesses you've destroyed. You don't have to see them, or visit them, or know who they are. So they're lives become irrelevant to you.

by ThatBritGuy (thatbritguy (at) googlemail.com) on Sat Mar 28th, 2009 at 10:59:16 PM EST
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ThatBritGuy:
The other side of abstraction is social disconnection.

The sociopathic nature of the Corporation - at least in its publicly traded form - is that it enables ownership without responsibility.

ie it's not just meta-money which has come about through the objectification of money, but also meta-capital through the objectification of property.

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

by ChrisCook (cojockathotmaildotcom) on Sun Mar 29th, 2009 at 06:23:25 AM EST
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And over time, what was once a privilege has become taken for granted as a right.


I've been accused of being a Marxist, yet while Harpo's my favourite, it's Groucho I'm always quoting. Odd, that.
by BruceMcF (agila61 at netscape dot net) on Mon Mar 30th, 2009 at 02:48:22 PM EST
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finance without operation
management without production
reporting without facts

A floating layer of upper class twits whose expertise is in sending memos.

by rootless2 on Sun Mar 29th, 2009 at 10:55:54 AM EST
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... since they can just send Tweets.

I've been accused of being a Marxist, yet while Harpo's my favourite, it's Groucho I'm always quoting. Odd, that.
by BruceMcF (agila61 at netscape dot net) on Mon Mar 30th, 2009 at 02:48:54 PM EST
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Can they now twitter Excel and Power Point?  I thought that was the prerequisite for demonstrable MBAitude.

As the Dutch said while fighting the Spanish: "It is not necessary to have hope in order to persevere."
by ARGeezer (ARGeezer a in a circle eurotrib daught com) on Tue Mar 31st, 2009 at 11:20:44 PM EST
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