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]
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who is that hot piece of jailbait?
What’s the connection to the pciture? I don’t get it
“marry me” is the connection, half-wits.
she’s a German piece of ass who probably takes it up the ass, Peer Steinbrueck in German finance minister. Q.E.D.
who is that?
3:2 says its Bess’ Myspace picture.
if you don’t get bess’s Arrested Development references you shouldn’t be reading this site.
ya show was so good it got cancelled. great point carl
Bess is awesome, STEVE HOLT!
that is bess. but she has gained more weight recently.
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)
Bess is awesome, STEVE HOLT!
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
The trees in France line both sides of the roadway because we like to march in the shade.
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?
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.
Babysit me!
Cruz is being reassigned at MS
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
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.
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.
This post brings back fond memories of the frozen-banana stand accounting debacle.