Showing posts with label wall street. Show all posts
Showing posts with label wall street. Show all posts

November 14, 2008

Creative Destruction?

Whiskey.

Tango.

Foxtrot.

Read this now.

The guy writing it makes some of the players out to be more heroic than they really are. Shorting a market you find reprehensible is full participation in reprehensible activity.

Still, a fascinating peek into what happened. This also explains some of what these financial instruments actually are. Which is a terrifying realization.

Regulation cannot come too soon, but I suspect nothing will actually happen.