Everything new was once old and is in AtD

[Michael Bailey]

Wall Street ought to be a place where you can invest in a
real enterprise, own a chunk of a company, participate in
making things...instead it's become derivatives of derivatives,
sterile piling up of money for its own sake,
void of nutrition,
like Milo Minderbinder's chocolate coated cotton balls in Catch-22


On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 11:28 AM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Senators from both parties verbally pounded the Goldman executives,
> accusing them of a financial version of rigged casino gambling that they
> said endangered the entire U.S. economy.
>
> That drew a protest from Sen. John Ensign, a Nevada Republican. In Las
> Vegas, he said, "people know the odds are against them. They play anyway. On
> Wall Street, they manipulate the odds while you're playing the game."
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