John, you are welcome to send me this type info privately in the future. I
found it very interesting!

Nora

On Sunday, May 26, 2013, John Robinson wrote:

> Lee,
>
> If you read the book you remember most all this began in academia, those
> so anti-business you would think they would regulate themselves....I
> certainly didn't mean for this to go this direction, I was *only* trying
> to answer Harry on what a quant *was* and also *how* they have affected
> our everyday lives.
>
> I love the lighthearted response of so many....in the future I will
> withhold my comments on subjects related to the Mac for fear it will open a
> door that I didn't dream.  I felt there would be those on the list that
> would like to know how magnified our housing mess became due to the whiz
> kids that learned from the best professors our Universities could produce.
>
> Have a great holiday folks, I'll go mow some more........
>
> John
>
>
> On May 26, 2013, at 4:26 PM, Lee Larson wrote:
>
> On May 26, 2013, at 4:05 PM, John Robinson wrote:
>
> No politics intended Sandra, it is what it is.  I felt that most on the
> list would find it interesting (if they didn't already know) the real cause
> of our current mess, not only a small segment in housing but quants, that
> exacerbated an already bad situation.  Informed people are empowered people.
>
>
> Yes it is politics. I read Patterson's book. There isn't much exploration
> of the fact that oversight of the institutions was greatly deemphasized
> during the early years of this century, or the affect of mega-mergers on
> the consolidation of risk, or the gutting of the Glass-Steagall Act in
> 1999, or ...
>
> Let's not drive this list into a deep and dark rabbit hole.
>
>
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