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"If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don’t have to worry about answers" Thomas Pynchon
"Talvez, por exemplo, impor que, no final do primeiro e segundo trimestre do próximo ano, o crédito a pequenas e médias empresas atinja, para cada banco, respectivamente, 20 por cento e 40 por cento acima do que figura nos balanços de Dezembro deste ano. Mantendo-se daí em diante. E que, não cumprindo, os bancos tivessem de depositar no BP o montante em falta para atingir aquele objectivo. Remunerado à taxa zero por cento. Podendo ser repassado a outros que o quisessem aplicar em PME.".
"Most of all, the vast riches being earned — or maybe that should be “earned” — in our bloated financial industry undermined our sense of reality and degraded our judgment.Mas quem ouviu o professor Campos e Cunha no Prós e Contras da última 2ª feira ficou a saber que esta conversa é uma tolice pegada.
"Think of the way almost everyone important missed the warning signs of an impending crisis. How was that possible? How, for example, could Alan Greenspan have declared, just a few years ago, that “the financial system as a whole has become more resilient” — thanks to derivatives, no less? The answer, I believe, is that there’s an innate tendency on the part of even the elite to idolize men who are making a lot of money, and assume that they know what they’re doing.
"After all, that’s why so many people trusted Mr. Madoff.
"Now, as we survey the wreckage and try to understand how things can have gone so wrong, so fast, the answer is actually quite simple: What we’re looking at now are the consequences of a world gone Madoff."