[mrreaganaut]

Now, now, no personal attacks. If anything is laughable, it is the idea that financiers seek "rational deals" rather then the most self-serving deal possible. Read The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith and see if has one good word to say about businessmen.

[Toddsterpatriot]

If anything is laughable, it is the idea that financiers seek "rational deals" rather then the most self-serving deal possible.

Self-serving deals are irrational?

Read The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own self-interest. We address ourselves, not to their humanity but to their self-love

Damn those self-serving butchers, brewers and bakers. LOL!

[JasonC]

I've read it and everything else. And the pretence by the know-nothing populist crowd that they believe in capitalism, while they spend every waking moment yearning for the ruin of every capitalist there is, is merely disgusting.