The faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Even a burglar hesitates to go back for more.
Things aren't right. If a burglar breaks into your home and you shoot him, he can sue you. For what, restraint of trade?
In the business world, we can point to instances when a lack of integrity has bankrupted entire companies - in sectors as different as finance, telecommunications, manufacturing, and energy.
The wealth of the country, its capital, its credit, must be saved from the predatory poor as well as the predatory rich, but above all from the predatory politician.
Burglars know there's more than one way to skin a vault.
What Wall Street and credit card companies are doing is really not much different from what gangsters and loan sharks do who make predatory loans. While the bankers wear three-piece suits and don't break the knee caps of those who can't pay back, they still are destroying people's lives.
Financial crises are an unfortunate but necessary consequence of modern capitalism.
It is the quality of lending over the quantity of lending.
People who make money often make mistakes, and even have major setbacks, but they believe they will eventually prosper, and they see every setback as a lesson to be applied in their move towards success.
A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.