Calvin Trillin on Wall Street

[Pexster]

Funny!

Quote:

“When the smart guys started this business of securitizing things that didn’t even exist in the first place, who was running the firms they worked for? Our guys! The lower third of the class! Guys who didn’t have the foggiest notion of what a credit default swap was. All our guys knew was that they were getting disgustingly rich, and they had gotten to like that. All of that easy money had eaten away at their sense of enoughness.”

[Theophylact]

I've been a Trillin fan since he started writing for the New Yorker in '63. I love his weekly poems in The Nation. Here's this week's.

Quote:

Three Possible Explanations From the Nobel Committee

        1.
Don't be surprised. Don't gasp. Don't faint.
We've simply said, "George Bush he ain't."
        
        2.
The prize diplomacy can reap'll
Prevent this guy from bombing people.

        3.
Since Henry Kissinger has won,
You know that this is all in fun.

[SiliconJon]

By that read he appears a chap I would enjoy further readings from. But alas, I doubt I'll be reminded by anyone to read him again, and my daily science readings will not have the chance to enjoy a break such as that until I one day again stray from my path and come back down and dabble in the dimo, and only if such dabble crosses his ripple again.