'Mortgage Fairy' can't save us
Commentary: Financial emergency may prompt pre-Obama action
By Lou Barnes, Friday, December 5, 2008.
Flickr image by levaine.In one of the few benefits of increasing age: The older you get, the more times you've blown off your eyebrows in the lab and the less shocked you are when things that "can't happen" ... happen.
The markets today, a bunch of kids under 50, are jaw-dropped -- so whacked upside the head they can't even find the big river in Egypt. They've spent their whole working lives back-testing risk models back to the Civil War (between Athens and Sparta), absolutely certain of what can and cannot happen, leveraged to the eyeballs based on those boundaries.
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