"History is a wonderful thing, if only it was true"
-Tolstoy

Thursday, February 05, 2009

Banking should be boring

"Normal" bankers often weren't the best and brightest.

In short, "real" banking is a low margin business.
The trouble is that some turned it into a "glamor" business

How Banking Diversification Steered Us Wrong - BusinessWeek:

"The mess we're in started with financial theories that substituted banking innovation for due diligence and sensible regulation"

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