How Wall Street and Government Calculate

November 18, 2008

The NYT blog Laugh Lines includes a short skit from an Abbot and Costello routine that may show us the seeds of the present financial disaster:

Let’s see, Costello’s math must have been used by Bear Stearns, Lehman Bros., Merrill Lynch, AIG, Fannie Mae, and Freddie Mac, and who knows who else, right?


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