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I know what job I want..reading and culling comments sent to the Nytimes after a columnist writes a financial piece. Not long ago, most columns generated about 200 hundred responses. Recently, comments are approaching 1,000, delivering better barometrics and more humor.
In David Brook’s wake
http://community.nytimes.com/article.../13brooks.html
1.)
“As for me, yes, my psychology has completely changed. I've always resented being forced to play the FICO credit and credit card game, yet like everyone else I must use credit in order to get more credit and better interest rates - although the rules of the game are constantly changing in favor of the lender. And a shockingly disproportionate percentage of my score is determined by my credit use and history, not my actual income and savings. To top it off, I have to pay to see my FICO score! What a grand and arcane money scheme we have all become ensnared in.”
2.)
“David, don't tell us how the GOP turned a high trust society into a low trust society by returning us to the Social Darwinism of the 19th century. Don't mention how the financial and corporate elites from the major universities and business schools used their fancy mathematical models and law-of-the-jungle psychology to convince Americans that if we just "worked harder", "stopped whining", and "acted tougher", we could all live in a Gilded Age care of "compassionate conservatism" fueled by "trickle-down economics…I do hope Americans start blaming themselves, and the sooner the better. Americans should blame themselves for getting suckered into history's greatest Ponzi scheme by the likes of you and the legions of financial and corporate elites who pushed the heroin of easy riches through "investing".
3.)
“Finally Mr. Brooks has thought his way into the same black hole that swallowed Phil Gramm.”It's all in your head, America!"
4.)
“The lower classes in America have the power of multiples - they are the vast majority. The 180 degree turn in their spending habits is the result of reality not mood. People financing their lives with credit cards are doing so no longer. Shocking what an impact the loss of the Great American Sucker has on the marketplace. No doubt this must leave Wall Street depressed. Who would have thought that all those little people, who bore all those weaselly late charges and hidden costs because they had nowhere else to go for loans could sink the geniuses who thought them up?”
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
In David Brook’s wake
http://community.nytimes.com/article.../13brooks.html
1.)
“As for me, yes, my psychology has completely changed. I've always resented being forced to play the FICO credit and credit card game, yet like everyone else I must use credit in order to get more credit and better interest rates - although the rules of the game are constantly changing in favor of the lender. And a shockingly disproportionate percentage of my score is determined by my credit use and history, not my actual income and savings. To top it off, I have to pay to see my FICO score! What a grand and arcane money scheme we have all become ensnared in.”
2.)
“David, don't tell us how the GOP turned a high trust society into a low trust society by returning us to the Social Darwinism of the 19th century. Don't mention how the financial and corporate elites from the major universities and business schools used their fancy mathematical models and law-of-the-jungle psychology to convince Americans that if we just "worked harder", "stopped whining", and "acted tougher", we could all live in a Gilded Age care of "compassionate conservatism" fueled by "trickle-down economics…I do hope Americans start blaming themselves, and the sooner the better. Americans should blame themselves for getting suckered into history's greatest Ponzi scheme by the likes of you and the legions of financial and corporate elites who pushed the heroin of easy riches through "investing".
3.)
“Finally Mr. Brooks has thought his way into the same black hole that swallowed Phil Gramm.”It's all in your head, America!"
4.)
“The lower classes in America have the power of multiples - they are the vast majority. The 180 degree turn in their spending habits is the result of reality not mood. People financing their lives with credit cards are doing so no longer. Shocking what an impact the loss of the Great American Sucker has on the marketplace. No doubt this must leave Wall Street depressed. Who would have thought that all those little people, who bore all those weaselly late charges and hidden costs because they had nowhere else to go for loans could sink the geniuses who thought them up?”
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland