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Silverbird
11-17-2007, 09:36 AM
http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2007/11/26/101232838/index.htm?postversion=2007111212

(Fortune Magazine) -- "Two things stand out about the credit crisis cascading through Wall Street: It is both totally shocking and utterly predictable.

Shocking, because a pack of the highest-paid executives on the planet, lauded as the best minds in business and backed by cadres of math whizzes and computer geeks, managed to lose tens of billions of dollars on exotic instruments built on the shaky foundation of subprime mortgages.
Predictable because whether it's junk bonds or tech stocks or emerging-market debt, Wall Street always rides a wave until it crashes..." :mad: