TRP-related (by me at least)..from a review

rich richard.romeo at gmail.com
Wed Mar 24 08:45:23 CDT 2010


I don't think the idea  that public companies can find ways to raise capital
such as issuing shares is necessarily a bad thing. Proper oversight and
regulation is what is needed

as much as anarchism is very attractive, all it really amounts to a
diversion for children with nothing to lose no matter how Pynchon exalts
them.




On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 7:54 AM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:

>     The Big Short by Michael Lewis is "an indictment of shareholder driven
> capitalism". As soon as partnership was replaced by investor money, it
> became a casino.
>
> I would argue that one of the meanings of the casino (and Vegas in IV?) in
> AtD is captured in the above....Pynchon satirizes society for losing its
> human scale most.
>
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