[scifinoir2] Re: OT: Author Details How Some Profited from Financial Meltdown

2010-03-20 Thread Kelwyn
I saw this on 60 minutes. I was fascinated by the guy who suffered from Asperger's syndrome who figured out what was going on by doing something really simple - he read the prospectuses he requested from the brokerage houses. He made $750 million. Reading is fundamental. ~rave! --- In

Re: [scifinoir2] Re: OT: Author Details How Some Profited from Financial Meltdown

2010-03-20 Thread Martin Baxter
Read that as well, rave, in Vanity Fair. In a sense, you want to applaud it as True American Ingenuity, even as you want to rail at the thought of such blood money being made. On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 9:15 AM, Kelwyn ravena...@yahoo.com wrote: I saw this on 60 minutes. I was fascinated by the

[scifinoir2] Re: OT: Author Details How Some Profited from Financial Meltdown

2010-03-20 Thread Kelwyn
I read about it in Vanity Fair, too, but I didn't want to sound elitist ; Once again, the information these handful of men used to get fabulously rich was hidden in plain sight. It was there for anybody to see. It reminds me of the fable about the Emperor with No Clothes. The Wall Street

Re: [scifinoir2] Re: OT: Author Details How Some Profited from Financial Meltdown

2010-03-20 Thread Keith Johnson
. - Original Message - From: Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@gmail.com To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, March 20, 2010 12:41:31 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Re: OT: Author Details How Some Profited from Financial Meltdown Read that as well, rave

Re: [scifinoir2] Re: OT: Author Details How Some Profited from Financial Meltdown

2010-03-20 Thread Keith Johnson
To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, March 20, 2010 1:28:31 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: [scifinoir2] Re: OT: Author Details How Some Profited from Financial Meltdown I read about it in Vanity Fair, too, but I didn't want to sound elitist ; Once again, the information

Re: [scifinoir2] Re: OT: Author Details How Some Profited from Financial Meltdown

2010-03-20 Thread Martin Baxter
But, rave... aren't we elitist? Intellectually, at least? [?][?] And you're spot-on about the Asperger's kid. On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 1:28 PM, Kelwyn ravena...@yahoo.com wrote: I read about it in Vanity Fair, too, but I didn't want to sound elitist ; Once again, the information these