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Panich52

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Sat May 30, 2015, 03:26 PM May 2015

The Unrepentant ‘Gorilla’ of Wall Street Wants You to Bite Him

PoliticusUSA

No, the “gorilla” of Wall Street is not in jail. Asked why he didn’t just ride into the sunset’, the former CEO of Lehman Brothers responded, “Why don’t you bite me?”

And those, ladies and gentlemen, are the words of a Wall Street bank’s CEO explaining why he has no regrets even though he oversaw Lehman Brothers during the biggest bankruptcy in this country’s history and played a rather large role in the financial collapse of 2008.

You, of course, might feel otherwise.

Breaking his seven year silence to speak at the Gandy Hyatt hotel in Midtown Manhattan, Richard Fuld Jr (Dick Fuld) played fast and loose with the truth and wished for better days. Days when he and his kind were making risky bets on the backs of the American people with no regulation in sight. You know, before the collapse of Lehman Brothers Holdings, Inc.

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The Unrepentant ‘Gorilla’ of Wall Street Wants You to Bite Him (Original Post) Panich52 May 2015 OP
In a just world, these evil, greedy fuckers would be hifiguy May 2015 #1
No, we must go after important people... awoke_in_2003 May 2015 #2
Here's the irony .... Exilednight May 2015 #3
I've heard a lot about moondust May 2015 #4
Message auto-removed Name removed May 2015 #5

Exilednight

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3. Here's the irony ....
Sat May 30, 2015, 06:56 PM
May 2015

Bailing out "too big to fail" made these guys look like superstars within the industry. Creating "too big to fail" has shown that these guys will take huge risks knowing that they will not be allowed to collapse.

Now every bank wants to be that big, putting these guys in high demand.

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