Feb
10
2009
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What’s Wrong With Wall Street? Pt. 1

This entry is part 1 of 3 in the series what's wrong with wall street

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In my daily perusal of economic news — required reading for the day job — I have found myself more than once staring my computer monitor in open-mouthed wonder, occasionally exclaiming, “You’ve got to be kidding me,” or “What’s wrong with these people?”,or something like that. To do what they’ve been doing, you’d either have to not be paying attention to what’s going on or just not care.

In their case, it’s a little of both. And it’s diagnosable, but not treatable.

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Written by terrance in: current events,economics,politics |
Feb
12
2009
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What’s Wrong With Wall Street? Pt. 2

This entry is part 2 of 3 in the series what's wrong with wall street

Being married to a psychiatrist, there just happened to be a copy of the DSM IV in the house. I grabbed it and, on a hunch, turned to the section on personality disorders, where antisocial personality disorder caught my eye first.

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Written by terrance in: current events,economics,family,politics |
Feb
17
2009
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What’s Wrong With Wall Street, Pt. 3

This entry is part 3 of 3 in the series what's wrong with wall street

Whoever said it was right when he or she called the current economic downturn a “financial 9/11.” Though he may not have meant it in quite this way, it’ still an apt comparison. Because, just as 9/11 was something that didn’t “just happen” to us, but was done to us, so this financial crisis did not “just happen” to to us. It is a consequence of actions taken and decisions made, and it was allowed to happen — through incompetence, indifference, and sometimes intentional neglect.

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Written by terrance in: current events,economics,politics |

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