re: #187 jvic

Don’t insist on a banker if you see a politician first.

In addition to their hubris about managing risk, the bankers thought they were facilitating what the politicians (Left and Right) wanted done. They did not expect to be singled out as scapegoats.

They should have checked with the tobacco industry.

Really? You actually believe that ‘bankers’, or more accurately the financial industry in general, took ridiculous risks with invested money and financial products because that’s what politicians wanted? Not because it could make them a lot of money, or because they thought they’d never have to pay the piper, but because government told them to do it? Do you actually believe that?