Thought I would offer a View I encountered recently.
"In short the current global financial crisis is a story about people who thought they were the smartest guys in the room and who turned out to be remarkably naïve, reckless or, in some cases, downright stupid. It’s a story — novelistic in its narrative and moral arc — about hubris and greed and heedlessness, about people, as Fitzgerald wrote in “The Great Gatsby,” who “smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness” and “let other people clean up the mess they had made.”"
I apologize to the author for not providing attribution. I have to start being more attentive to that issues as these thoughts are very valuable to all of us. Another sin I will have to account for.
Dang these sins. See you later
Denny