[The Duke]

I suspect that their lawyers just weren’t prepared...and I bet they’ll be prepared the next time around.

[Travis McGee]

The real point of this, to me, isn’t that the lawyers will never be able to untangle this mess. It’s that this mess, in the short and medium term, will contribute to a global credit crunch. It’s like injecting coagulating medicine into a patient who already has very low blood pressure. In the long term, this coagulant might dissipate, but in the short term the patient may die.