[PEN-L:214] Re: American Crony Capitalism Lives!!! -or-

[boddhisatva <kbevans@xxxxxxxxx>]

When is a Loss not a Loss?
In-Reply-To: Your message of Thu, 24 Sep 1998 10:43:26 -0400





		To whom...,


	A loss, it seems, even in this great bastion of market-rationality,
risk-management and (gulp) transparency (except for hedge funds, playgrounds
of the Gods) is not a question of what you owe, but whom you know.

	Thus is revealed the eternal achilles heel of capitalism.  No
matter how they try to sanitize the system, they cannot undo the
instability that having so much wealth in so few hands creates.
Capitalism's greatest geniuses can't smooth out the wrinkles and they have
to go whining to their rich pals.  What a bunch of cowards.  That
Meriwether, Merton and Scholes, gurus of analytical finance capitalism,
should be laid low by the Russian nomenklatura is an irony so rich it's
practically proof of the existence of God.



	peace