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http://www.marketwatch.com/story/so-god-made-a-banker-2013-02-06
And on the eighth day God looked down on his planned paradise and said, “I need someone who can flip this for a quick buck.”
So God made a banker.
God said, “I need someone who doesn’t grow anything or make anything but
who will borrow money from the public at 0% interest and then lend it
back to the public at 2% or 5% or 10% and pay himself a bonus for doing
so.”
So God made a banker.
God said, “I need someone who will take money from the people who work
and save, and use that money to create a dotcom bubble and a housing
bubble and a stock bubble and an oil bubble and a commodities bubble and
a bond bubble and another stock bubble, and then sell it to people in
Poughkeepsie and Spokane and Bakersfield, and pay himself another
bonus.”
So God made a banker.
God said, “I need someone to build homes in the swamps and deserts using
shoddy materials and other people’s money, and then use these homes as
collateral for a Ponzi scheme he can sell to pensioners in California
and Michigan and Sweden. I need someone who will then foreclose on those
homes, kick out the occupants, and switch off the air conditioning and
the plumbing, and watch the houses turn back into dirt. And then pay
himself another bonus.”
God said, “I need someone to lend money to people with bad credit at 30%
interest in order to get his stock price up, and then, just before the
loans turn bad, cash out his stock and walk away. And who, when asked
later, will, with a tearful eye, say the government made him do it.”
God said, “And I need somebody who will tell everyone else to stand on
their own two feet, but who will then run to the government for a
bailout as soon as he gets into trouble — and who will then use that
bailout money to help elect a Congress that will look the other way. And
then pay himself another bonus.”
So God made a banker
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