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

[rich]

meant to say "not necessarily a bad thing'. sorry

On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 9:45 AM, rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:

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