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Margaret Thatcher
on Jun 10, 2009- Former prime minister of the United Kingdom!- Daughter of a grocer!- Closely allied with fellow idiot Ronald Reagan!- Known for her arrogant dismissal of opinions contrary to her own!- Bemoaned the changing racial composition of her country!- Calle...
Ayn Rand
on Jun 9, 2009- Russian-born writer -- and inventor of Objectivism, a simplistic philosophy beloved by 15-year-old social outcasts everywhere!- Believed self-interest to be all good -- and altruism to be evil!- Found the idea of volunteering to help the less fortu...
Stan O'Neal
on Jun 8, 2009- Former CEO of Merrill Lynch!- Graduate of (wait for it...) Harvard Business School!- Known for firing people who disagreed with him!- Despised by Merrill's rank and file!- Called "a mean person, a disrespectful person" who "drove out thousands of y...
Charles Prince
on Jun 7, 2009- Former Citigroup CEO!- Goes by "Chuck" -- surely proof that he's just a regular guy!- A lawyer by training, and an administrator by nature!- Originally ran the bank in tandem with the COO, Robert Willumstad!- When Willumstad left Citi, Prince someh...
Christopher Dodd
on Jun 2, 2009- United States Senator (D-CT)!- Chairman of the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs -- ground zero for Senate banking-oversight efforts!- Regular recipient of massive campaign donations from the very financial institutions he's charged...
Herb and Marion Sandler
on May 22, 2009- Co-CEOs of Golden West Financial, parent company of World Savings Bank -- a major subprime lender!- The first housing lender to offer adjustable rate mortgages (ARMs) -- one of the easy-credit products that ending up cratering the housing market!-...