Honore de Balzac Quotes
I do not regard a broker as a member of the human race.
During this crises, the taxpayers of America had to bail out most of the largest banks in the country whose profligate investment strategy had squandered their depositors and other customers money as a result of the spiral to reap higher and higher profits until they collapsed with the executives making millions in bonuses when their banks were losing money. They put millions of people out of work, and their greedy policies crashed the housing market and then the same banks evicted millions of families when the banks foreclosed on their mortgages with thousands of bank officers committing felonies in the foreclosure processes. This was to Blankfiein and many of the other leading bankers, “God’s Work”.
Honoré de Balzac was a French novelist and playwright. The novel sequence La Comédie humaine, which presents a panorama of post-Napoleonic French life, is generally viewed as his magnum opus.