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grandalf on May 17, 2009 | parent | context | favorite | on: Danger Mouse's EMI-killed CD will be released as a...

How did highly paid experts get things wrong? I'd argue that they were responding to incentives put in place by (not all that well paid) policymakers.

swombat on May 17, 2009 [–]

You really think that all those bankers at Lehman sat there plotting to suck the company dry until it went bankrupt? Even though 50% of their salary was in the form of shares?

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