Friday, January 29, 2010

WALL STREET CRUSADE OR FINANCIAL JIHAD?

NYT--Not so long ago, financiers ruled the roost at the glitzy annual gathering of the global economic elite here in the Swiss Alps. At this year's gathering of the World Economic Forum, the unofficial theme seems to be, "First, kill all the bankers."

The ire directed at bankers from all sides is palpable, acknowledged Osama Bin Banker, chairman of Morgan Stanley in Europe, as he stood alone reading some charts amidst the hubbub at the forum's Global Village cafe.

Asked which other groups of people have been similarly unpopular in Davos in the past, he said: "terrorists."
  

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