Comments on: What’s Consuming America? http://rudeawakening.agorafinancial.com/2008/12/01/whats-consuming-america/ Hot Coffee In the Face of Wall Street Thu, 05 Nov 2009 06:41:47 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: RiskAverseAlert http://rudeawakening.agorafinancial.com/2008/12/01/whats-consuming-america/comment-page-1/#comment-686 RiskAverseAlert Thu, 04 Dec 2008 17:50:09 +0000 http://www.agorafinancial.com/afrude/?p=425#comment-686 "The financial industry was just doing what it always does -- separating fools from their money." I am a cynic, too, but not quite that much. If I am to understand the value of capitalism, then the financial industry certainly serves a productive purpose beyond separating fools from their money. That comment about "court-ordered sterilization" is curious. Any chance the office will be buying you a pair of jackboots for Christmas, Bill? “The financial industry was just doing what it always does — separating fools from their money.”

I am a cynic, too, but not quite that much. If I am to understand the value of capitalism, then the financial industry certainly serves a productive purpose beyond separating fools from their money.

That comment about “court-ordered sterilization” is curious. Any chance the office will be buying you a pair of jackboots for Christmas, Bill?

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