Posted on 03/18/2014 5:43:16 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
“And all of the banker’s deaths in the last 2 months”
See, this is what I don’t get. All we have is some websites publishing stories these deaths, trying to make it appear as if there is some “wave” of deaths. What we don’t have is anyone saying “X number of people in the financial sector committed suicide or died violently by this time last year, so there is a Y % spike”. No, everyone is leaving out the crucial information as to whether there is an increase, a decrease, or no change at all from historical levels. Yet, we know that the financial sector always has a high rate of suicides, so you would think that would be an important thing to compare before going all paranoid.
“If a hallucinogenic experience were to cause some deep contemplation (which it often does), such might lead to a sudden and deep sense of despair.”
Sure, it might, but there’s no way to be sure that those effects would happen. This is why the intelligence agencies investigated hallucinogens for various purposes and then abandoned them, because they just couldn’t be relied on for reproducible results.
Yea, classy.
I’m sure his family will love hearing jokes about dead bankers.
WTH is wrong with you?
You seem to be suggesting premeditation on the part of someone.
I am only suggesting coincidence with a handfull of drug-taking bankers who live in highrise or medium-rise buildings.
Same thing happened a few years back with some NYU students.
“You seem to be suggesting premeditation on the part of someone.”
Ah, I thought that is what you were implying. My mistake.
No prob.
I am not an expert on the derivatives market but supposedly its llike 300 trillion dollars or some insane figure. Also all these guys who are committing (maybe) suicide are covered by derivative insurance policies that pay off into the millions. The payment is to the company not to their family.
The bad ones are those which, in the end, cannot deliver.
Like sub-prime mortgages.
If you have a giant fund filled with mortgages from folks who can't pay them back (derivatives) and other weird stuff (more derivatives)...you have a derivatives problem.;-)
But if your fund is full of good ole fashioned securities and mortgages and bonds--even derivatives which will repay their principal--then you are probably OK.
Most folks think Wall St is really fancy and complicated. If someone told you how it all works in simple terms...you would get it. Wall St isn't magical or even really complicated.
And the stuff you couldn't get (i.e. comprehend) might be those very derivatives that were rotten from the get-go.
I was on Wall St for most of my career. And I knew some very honest people. But don't confuse honest or fine colleges with smart.
Wall St isn't particularly smart (IMHO).
A man running a successful complex farming operation is much smarter than anyone on Wall St...or any big company CEO.
Wall St is the reason everyone loves Duck Dynasty.
The country truth is better than big city BS every time!
> Yet, we know that the financial sector always has a high rate of suicides, so you would think that would be an important thing to compare before going all paranoid.
I have Obummer for that. The paranoia is well founded though...: )
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