[roaddog727]

"So someone who actually makes something, as oppossed to someone who waits for other folks to make somethng and then grabs the value of the trading of that thing so made -- that maker of real things -- just a peon. Of no value."

What's the demand for baskets vs the demand for financial services? hmmmmmmmm?

What's required to make baskets vs what's required to put together an M&A deal? Hmmmmm?

[bvw]

Are you doing yoga while posting? Sounds like it.

[bvw]

What does a college education have to do with an M&A deal? A Some of those deals are motivated by the fact that the the CEO of one biggie financial institution is shagging the CIO of the other. Or somebody was shut out a swank club, and so is motivated to show the bastards by buying out their freaking company. And many by the "grass is greener" effect. Few want to stick to their knitting, or basket weaving. The "moxie" of the high position breeds a sense of delusional grandeurs outside and crap inside.

We NEED more education in basket weaving and less in how to auction your hard assets to China for paper to trade to other papered-over shell companies.