Worth reposting, worth remembering.

from metafilter

Remember, if you owe the bank a thousand dollars, the bank owns you. If you owe the bank a billion dollars, you own the bank. If the bank owes you five hundred billion dollars, the bank owns your whole country.
posted by Justinian at 12:13 PM on February 5 [8 favorites +] [!]

Thank you for the lovely framing of the US financial crisis.

Comment (1)

  1. Piers Rippey wrote::

    Clever.

    Friday, February 6, 2009 at 12:02 am #