Axiom Home Page Forums General Discussion The Water Cooler On bankers and psychopaths.

No, but I will look for it. Thanks for the tip, Cam man. It wasn't until the 90's that every traveling bigtime exhibition forced you to leave through a temporary gift shop featuring calendars, cutting boards, and mugs of all the things you just saw.

At one museum I worked at, you left AND entered though the giftshop!

Oh yeah.... the "Colonoscopies Through the Ages" museum...

Ever hear of The Mutter Museum in Philly? It's right up the same alley of your allusion.

You know, I never really thought of how prominent the gift shop entrance/exit is but I do remember feeling good this spring after leaving the Glenbow Museum in Calgary to see the Karsh exhibit. I did not have to traverse their gift shop at all and it gave the place a much more elegant feel.

Now I have seen portraiture photography from both Yousuf Karsh and Mark Johnson. I declare that particular genre, very well covered.

I read the piece. What a pile of poop. Anyone who accuses US society of being grossly unequal misses the point. A child of a working class family in the US can become wealthy. This is not the case in countries characterized by extreme wealth on the top and starvation poverty below.



We are only now experiencing middle class compression of socialist European countries, and that only because of the practice of spending more than we bring in at the Fed and State government levels.

Conflating the income of bankers with gang gun violence is an example of pure academic moronism. The suggestion that financial success is criminal vitiates the immorality of criminal conduct by bankers or any other segment of society. We'll see how Jon Corzine and his friends at MF Global who "lost" $1.2 billion make out.

When you drill down the authors' argument is an absurd over simplification - i.e., what is wrong with the financial sector is the lack of shame attached to failure, or 'guessing wrong.' The moral hazard of the losses which follow guessing wrong stands at the heart of the capitalist 'risk' system. The article's substitution for 'shame' with 'moral hazard' is subtle but Soviet.



By this standard, Obama and his enviro-socialist dwarfs should have been pilloried for their corrupt 'bad bets' on Solyndra and SunPower.

The article's point is congruent with the driving force behind the Obama administration, and the Occupy Wall Street losers - sociology or politics which divides a society by class. Socialist Class Warfare Demagoguery.

Nothing good comes from it.

Those are some excellent points 2x6.

Happy holidays!

But how do you really feel?????
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Kidding!!

Happy holidays to y'all as well!

Whenever I see graphics here that are entirely red, black and yellow, I immediately look to confirm that they came from Cam. Most especially when persons depicted are donning hats.
Hats with something yellow on them.

Nice curve.