Monday, August 15, 2022

Fifteen years and whadda you get...

Lessons from history

The Debt Offensive began in 2007: Charlie hit us with everything he had. Cadres of underpriced risk were tunnelling under our lines, popping up when least expected and decimating our defences. We fought back hard, dropping cash from the Hueys, first $700 billion, then trillions, but it was no use. Sure, we beat him back for a while, took down a few banks; but the public couldn't take seeing it all on TV. It was the turning point. We had lost the will to win.

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Republished from 2009

3 comments:

Paddington said...

My son and I think that they should have executed a few of the bankers at the top.

Sackerson said...

A few - that's very restrained.

Paddington said...

@Sackerson

"Pour encourage les autres", if I recall my French.