It Takes A Village To Raise A Banker
Monday, June 21, 2010 9:45 by Bob Atwell
The kitchen table consensus is that greed caused the ongoing financial crisis. The universality of greed undermines the value, if not the accuracy of this diagnosis. Greed is such a broad term that it almost defies definition. Like all vice, greed is more easily detected in another person than in oneself. Greed observed in another may have more to do with the envy of the observer than the avarice of the observed. We all see greed in Bernie Madoff, but why does the left not begrudge George Soros his billions and the right not begrudge Hank Paulson his hundreds of ...
