Monday, June 7, 2010

Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog WEEKEND QUOTABLES

Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog

WEEKEND QUOTABLES

Hedge-fund manager Steven Eisman
I thought there would never again be an opportunity to be involved with an industry as socially destructive and morally bankrupt as the subprime mortgage industry. I was wrong. The for-profit education industry has proven equal to the task. (Bloomberg)
Deb Meier
It's the new civil rights project. Just as the subprime mortgage fraud was justified by some as a wealth-equalizer, the privatizing of education becomes a civil rights crusade. (Bridging Differences)
Oil watcher Paul Sankey
Oil is really sunlight plus plants. ..This spill might be a giant fertilizer