[the invisib1e hand]

Steven Pearlstein, then a Washington Post business reporter and now a Post columnist, wrote in February that "the best thing that could happen to our economy is for a dozen high-profile hedge funds to collapse; for investment banking to enter a long, deep freeze; for a major bank to fail; and for the price of a typical Park Avenue duplex to fall by 30%."

And do we really think it was a coincidence that something quite like this is coming pass? Or was the bozo just reading the script of the fifth column in the US financial industry?

[ripley]

“or was the bozo just reading the script of the fifth column in the US financial industry?”

bingo. but a correction, as follows, is in order:

“or was the obnoxious,scu*bag bozo just reading the script of the fifth column in the US financial industry?”

IMHO

[ripley]

“or was the bozo just reading the script of the fifth column in the US financial industry?”

bingo. but a correction, as follows, is in order:

“or was the obnoxious,scu*bag bozo just reading the script of the fifth column in the US financial industry?”

IMHO