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 :)