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Old 05-24-2011, 03:07 PM  
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Yeah it was pretty good... What I found particularly interesting was how stupid they were... Not clearing things with the British ahead of time so the Lehman bros deal fell through.. Not even asking the question as to how long it would take to buy the toxic assets.. "trusting" the banks to lend the money out and just saying "of course they will"... It's just scary how such inept people could be in charge of things that important.

It wasn't just the US that would have collapsed.. Everyone would have... Just look at what happened to Iceland.
It really put things into perspective, that's for damn sure. And you are right about them being so stupid. But they answered that in the movie, they said no one cared and no one regulated them because they "were making so much damn money".
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