Žižek at Wall Street: “don’t fall in love with yourself”

Žižek at Wall Street: “don’t fall in love with yourself”

We are not destroying anything. We are only witnessing how the system is destroying itself. We all know the classic scene from cartoons. The cat reaches a precipice but it goes on walking, ignoring the fact that there is nothing beneath this ground. Only when it looks down and notices it, it falls down. This is what we are doing here. We are telling the guys there on Wall Street, “Hey, look down!”

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Decision making, Fannie Mae, Risk we take

A discussion by David Brooks on this timely subject.

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http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/10/28/opinion/edbrooks.php

Time Line of the Crisis under American sky

The link is CNN's documentation on the economic crisis spawned by mortgages that the American failed to arrrest.

http://edition.cnn.com/2008/BUSINESS/09/30/us.bailout.timeline/index.html?iref=mpstoryview

Update: Wallstreet

Thomas Friedman tries to figure out the Wallstreet meltdown. Shows how we are interconnected.

http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/10/01/opinion/edfriedman.php?page=2