Money talks

You don’t have to know with certainty what’s right and what’s wrong, but you can know what’s stupid. … Taxing bonuses at AIG is stupid. Anything that Congress passes in a short period of time is pretty much stupid.

-Adam Davidson, business and economics reporter at NPR

at the Nieman Conference on Narrative Journalism

on writing about business

Posted March 23, 2009 at 1:00 am by Erin | Share on Facebook
Categories: Economy, Money talks, Student Finance, Wall Street

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  1. Scott on March 23rd, 2009 11:10 am

    God forbid the taxpayers get their own money back after they paid it to the specific division which did more than anyone else in the entire world to cause the problem we’re now in…

    It’s funny how quotes like this are invariably from those who are in and out of the finance industry itself or making similarly absurd salaries.

  2. Monifest Money Talks on June 8th, 2009 10:34 pm

    [...]It’s funny how quotes like this are invariably from those who are in and out of the finance industry itself or making similarly absurd salaries.[...]

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