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Bird and Fortune - Subprime Crisis

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John Bird and John Fortune (the Long Johns) brilliantly, and accurately, describing the mindset of the investment banking community in this satirical interview.

Channel: Comedy
Uploaded: November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am
Author: kerviel88888

Length: 08:50
Rating: 4.93
Views: 625198

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brokenbriton (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
Its a pity such brilliant humour is lost on the likes of Antoine.The greed of the bankers selling worthless assets dressed up as great investments is where is all went wrong..Well done
antoinedargentine (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
Yeah ! Indeed ! This banker clearly attacked the unemployed Black man sitting in front of his crumbling house in Alabama !You are right, some people seem to think that s humor, but it is not !
ironyfree (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
Splendid...funny, true and irony-drenched.
incoserv (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
Uh, yeah... the whole thing was about racism. And Santa Clause... Get a clue!
bonafide480 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
Well, anyway the banker did the fraud against who he called the "black" man. The stress here is on the racism of the banker, not a personal actor's thought
Shachna1979 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
nice
batbomb92 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
LOL
WhyIsMyNickTaken (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
I too have been wondering! This was posted in Feb 2008 and hence must have been recorded before that. Most of the "detailed postmortem analysis" of the financial crisis was done in September 2008 when Lehman disappeared and others were pushed on the brink
hiroprot (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
Would the joke have been as funny if the "black" man was just "guy" on a crumbling porch? Why or why not? Does it matter that these are two older white men? Are there critical differences (historical and in the sense of humor) between an English and American audience that might make the same joke satire in Liverpool and troubling in Atlanta?
markcullis (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
I find it utterly staggering that anyone finds this racist...you're missing the point of the humour by so much it's frightening.

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