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"I'm not sure how he would go about implementing some of his ideas"

Mocking the young math-geek (I studied math) analysts, bankers, derivative creators or whatever their titles are, is a good start. I heard it somewhere that over the past decade or two, everyone's mom went from wanting their kid to be a doctor or lawyer to instead be a Wall Street I-banker. All we really need is for society to trust elaborate investment and debt schemes less.

I'm not sure if the moms had it right the first time though, because we have too many lawyers and doctors are taking a beating now from Obama,

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