2009/3/14 Yaron Minsky <yminsky@gmail.com>
On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 8:56 PM, Yoann Padioleau <padator@wanadoo.fr> 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 :)