He had ample opportunity to tame things so as to prevent the blowup; instead, he stood by, as more and more kerosene cans were placed right near the fire, just waiting for it to get out of control and explode.

We’re in a real time world; yet, it wans’t until march 2008, when Bear Stearns blew up, that any of these guys gave any thought to the problem. Then they basically dicked around another 6 months hoping it would self-correct, until Lehman/Citi/AIG grabbed them by the throat and made them finally react.

Ben should have seen this coming at least 2 years earlier; yet, he’s given great credit for the 9 months following the Sept. 08 blowup without being called out whatsoever for his admittedly passive role until then.

Not if you spell it d…r….a….w….k….c….a….b

I think it’s the word

c… a… s… i…n…o that gets moderated

Somedays waiting, is a real struggle. lol

Yeah, the same thing happened to me last week. Then poof, the same comment came up three different times. Bet everyone thought I was into the sauce. But it was still only 9AM here. I wait until at least 10AM. lol

it may still appear

i got “moderated” this am and, thinking it was a word press filter, i kept decimating the comment until it went, then much later in the day, all of the decimated comments appeared as well

strange

I believe my first comment to you is being “moderated”. So, let’s keep this one simple; I agree exactly with your timeframe.