Isn't it ironic that

[Occhidiangela]

Many people who are in other ways smart, or even brilliant, are complete dunces when it comes to financial matters, especially prudent planning about debt. Take a look at the lifetime finances of Thomas Jefferson if you want confirmation that this is not only true, but that it has been true for quite some time.

Some people just don't have the knack, and when they're given the kind of rope that a totally free, power-drunk credit market will give them, they hang themselves, time after time.

-Jester

Bingo.

Also, Henry Paulson is so used to using OPM (Other People's Money) as the Goldman Sachs chair that as Treasury Secretary he can't help himself. So, he's got the printing press fired up again, so that is more OPM around to play with.

Leopards and spots, I hear . . .