2009/3/14 Yaron Minsky > On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 8:56 PM, Yoann Padioleau wrote: > >> >> Having said that, about your company, Jane Street, >> aren't you part of the people that put the countries in such trouble ? >> Do you create wealth ? It seems you are just a parasite ... that >> exploits some loopholes in the system. >> > > What Jane Street does is very far from the part of finance---and the ways > of thinking---that caused these troubles. You can't just lump all of > finance together as "the guys who caused the trouble"; that would be like > condemning all engineers for > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0Fi1VcbpAI It's OK, that bridge was insured by AIG :)