Golden Fang

[rich]

Well, you know AIG that insurance company too big to fail
golden gangs for sure but pretty stupid ones at that (though we are
the ones paying for it all)

the financial crisis of 2008 is a bit like Blicero's lust to avoid
death; in the former's case it was the avoidance of, the guarantee of
any and all risk and its avoidance, another form of avoidance of a
certain death which keeps folks humble and honest. but all that
results is a quicker slide into the Lady Death's arms. Risk is death,
you can't avoid it no matter how many credit default swaps you got
hidden in yr wallet

rich

On 8/27/09, alice wellintown <alicewellintown at gmail.com> wrote:

> In any event, there is a building in NYC, you know Pynchon will
> re-locate stuff from NY to his "California" landscapes) that does have
> a golden fang and its made of 22 carrot gold leaf. And that's just
> what's on the roof. Inside, there are 5 levels underground, including
> one with its own subway station, and in the 5 underground levels are
> vaults and computers. Insurance Companies are the Engines of Wall
> Street. Not Goldman, Not Merril, not BofA, not Citi, but NY Life, Met
> Life ...so on. The white shoe firms in AtD, yes I know all about the
> Buish Nazi Banks and Harriman ...blah blah ...are not these Investment
> Banks today, the Secret ... is that the Insurance Companies and the
> Hedge Funds (and Hedge Funds are nothing w/o Insurance Companies
> because the Insurance Companies are the Leverage--we or our DEATHS are
> the Fulcrum), just ask Eliot Spitzer, are the Golden Gangs.
>
>
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Life_Building
>
> http://www.skyscrapersunset.com/skyscrapercity/nyc/040911-02/06.jpg
>