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Re:Review of “Adults in the Room” by Yanis Varoufakis by paganel on Wednesday May 03, 2017 @10:24AM (#14255868)
Probably both. I still remember a full-time ad in The Economist around 2006-2007 by a German Landesbank, where they were promoting themselves as the coolest of things when it came to banking and managing clients' money. Not 2 years passed and that same Landesbank was by then in very serious trouble because it had invested heavily in US mortgage derivates, I think there was also talk of its general manager doing prison time. He probably didn't.
Re:Review of “Adults in the Room” by Yanis Varoufakis by jandrese on Wednesday May 03, 2017 @10:42AM (#14256055)
AFAIK the only guy who did jail time for crashing the world's economy and wiping out retirement savings of millions of people was a guy who copied some utility code to dropbox when he quit Goldman Sachs.
Re:Review of “Adults in the Room” by Yanis Varoufakis by FabHK on Wednesday May 03, 2017 @11:32AM (#14256572)
Sergey Aleynikov spent a year in prison for copying some code over. Fabrice Tourre (self-proclaimed "Fabulous Fab", a nickname that ought to be mine! :) was indicted by the SEC for his role in selling dodgy mortgage backed CDOs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Aleynikov

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldman_Sachs#Abacus_mortgage-...

> "The whole building is about to collapse anytime now," Tourre wrote to his girlfriend in 2007, the SEC charged. "Only potential survivor, the fabulous Fab … standing in the middle of all these complex, highly leveraged, exotic trades he created without necessarily understanding all of the implications of those monstruosities!!!"

https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2013/08/01/gol...