I just read this article from The Guardian, and I must admit I'm a little encouraged.
Here's an excerpt:
'There is a growing feeling that banks ... might instead decide to tough it out,' said Thomas Caldwell, chairman and CEO of Caldwell Financial, a $1bn-plus fund manager.
Sure, they're acting out of self-interest and maybe even a sense of responsibility to depositors and shareholders, but this is the first glimmer of rational thought I've seen from the banking world in the past week - aside from Wells Fargo's "Fuck You, Citibank!" merger with Wachovia.
The only people who were safe were the legion; after one of their AT-ATs got painted dayglo pink with scarlet go faster stripes, they identified the perpetrators and exacted revenge. - Eleventh Century Remnant
It could also be they want all the money, but they don't want the various strings that are invariably going to come with that money which starts regulating their business.
"Show me an angel and I will paint you one." - Gustav Courbet
"Quetzalcoatl, plumed serpent of the Aztecs... you are a pussy." - Stephen Colbert
"Really, I'm jealous of how much smarter than me he is. I'm not an expert on anything and he's an expert on things he knows nothing about." - Me, concerning a bullshitter
