We like laying blame and we like public humiliation. (Ed.'s Note: this is where I wanted to end the post but Carney said I had to go into greater detail.) If you can add in something about "pretentious know-it-all dicks," marry me? Hence, German finance minster Steinbrück's comment to the Financial Times that the "snooty" attitude of bankers and financiers who believed themselves to be "cleverer than the others" is to blame for the credit crisis is pretty much our own personal perfect storm. Steinbrück also said that while these incompetent managers were guiding us into the current global "disaster," they were also "mocking" and "deliberately misunderstanding" his proposal for increased transparency, which was genius and could've saved the planet. Pumping yourself up = cherry on top.
This is what we need more of. No more sidestepping the question of who's to blame when things go wrong (assuming in the first place that $8.1 billion writeoffs aren't right). No more blaming inanimate objects, or pretending to fall asleep when you should be flashing a picture on the screen of Jimmy Cayne meeting his dealer on Vanderbilt and the words "Is there a connection" with three or five questions marks and an exclamation point. Mack: Was the $3 billion writeoff Cruz's fault? Cruz, is Mack making you the fall girl in a desperate attempt to justify the free set of steak knives he gets every year from William Henry? Let it out, you two.
‘Snooty’ bankers blamed for crisis [Financial Times]
Posted by tongue-wagger , Nov 30, 2007 2:35PM
who is that hot piece of jailbait?
Posted by me , Nov 30, 2007 2:39PM
What's the connection to the pciture? I don't get it
Posted by , Nov 30, 2007 2:42PM
"marry me" is the connection, half-wits.
Posted by pierre , Nov 30, 2007 2:43PM
she's a German piece of ass who probably takes it up the ass, Peer Steinbrueck in German finance minister. Q.E.D.
Posted by like the picture , Nov 30, 2007 2:44PM
who is that?
Posted by , Nov 30, 2007 2:44PM
3:2 says its Bess' Myspace picture.
Posted by carl weathers , Nov 30, 2007 2:46PM
if you don't get bess's Arrested Development references you shouldn't be reading this site.
Posted by , Nov 30, 2007 2:47PM
ya show was so good it got cancelled. great point carl
Posted by Steve Holt , Nov 30, 2007 2:48PM
Bess is awesome, STEVE HOLT!
Posted by , Nov 30, 2007 2:49PM
that is bess. but she has gained more weight recently.
Posted by , Nov 30, 2007 2:50PM
1. It's not Bess.
2. Her name is Alia Shawcat who played Maeby Funke in "Arrested Development"
3. It's Dealbreaker's way of generating lots of meaningless comments on this post so that they can increase page views (sadly, kind of like the way most of their entries are these days)
Posted by Steve Holt , Nov 30, 2007 2:51PM
Bess is awesome, STEVE HOLT!
Posted by AJ , Nov 30, 2007 2:56PM
Check out the subtitle to Google's results for a search for Bernanke:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=bernanke
and the cached version of that page, his early life:
http://216.239.59.104/search?q=cache:ld4OUOM05QYJ:en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Bernanke+bernanke&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=2&gl=us
Posted by Pvt. Peter Veenerschlider , Nov 30, 2007 2:56PM
The trees in France line both sides of the roadway because we like to march in the shade.
Posted by nothing better to do with my time , Nov 30, 2007 2:56PM
1 more time Steve! Carney, can't you fix the lag time when ppl make a post? Is this site's servers run out of some Guatemalan sweat shop or something?
Posted by , Nov 30, 2007 3:03PM
You would get the Arrested Development references only if you had seen the show, which is not exactly a barometer for who should and shouldn't be looking at DB. But nontheless very clever on Bess' part. Thats why I love her. And hate the dumb ones.
Posted by Mr Benson-Perella , Nov 30, 2007 3:17PM
Babysit me!
Posted by UberHirer , Nov 30, 2007 3:28PM
Cruz is being reassigned at MS
Posted by anonemous , Nov 30, 2007 3:43PM
Google Cache:
http://64.233.169.104/search?q=cache:ld4OUOM05QYJ:en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Bernanke+bernanke&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=2&gl=us
Posted by Humbert H. Humbert , Nov 30, 2007 4:45PM
Mr. Benson-Perella just gave me an idea. Do you think I could pay teenage girls to come over on the pretense that I have a child for them to babysit? Because that seems like a winner.
Posted by , Nov 30, 2007 5:22PM
HHH,
I like the way you think. I've been working on this one. My angle - go for the geriatric babysitter. There are plenty of hot 20 year olds into helping out old people.
When she finds out she's not going to have to change your adult diaper, just blow you, she will almost smile.
Posted by David , Dec 01, 2007 3:15PM
This post brings back fond memories of the frozen-banana stand accounting debacle.