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the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one million words

Toronto, 2012.05.22

Gee, these gloom and doom merchants never let up.

I mean how bad could it really be? Bank runs in Greece and Spain. Hints that JPM may be a Bear Stearns-style house of cards. Total derivatives for the top 25 banks is a svelte $230T. The US operating without a budget this year (once more). Psha. What's the worst that could happen?

rand()m quote

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great people are almost always bad people.

—Lord Acton, 1834-1902