Will Wall Street Go Free?
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com...pagemode=print
here's a quote near the end...
"And now for the part that really boggles the mind. If we all seem to be fine with the idea that no one from Bear Stearns, Lehman Brothers, Morgan Stanley, Merrill Lynch or A.I.G. has to pay the price for what transpired at their firms, why in the world are we so anxious to take out all of our collective anger for what happened in the financial crisis on Goldman Sachs, the only firm that had the intellectual and financial wherewithal to figure out there were serious risks in the mortgage market and to do something about it — albeit for its own benefit?"
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com...pagemode=print
here's a quote near the end...
"And now for the part that really boggles the mind. If we all seem to be fine with the idea that no one from Bear Stearns, Lehman Brothers, Morgan Stanley, Merrill Lynch or A.I.G. has to pay the price for what transpired at their firms, why in the world are we so anxious to take out all of our collective anger for what happened in the financial crisis on Goldman Sachs, the only firm that had the intellectual and financial wherewithal to figure out there were serious risks in the mortgage market and to do something about it — albeit for its own benefit?"