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It’s wrong to create a mortgage-backed security filled with loans you know are going to fail so that you can sell it to a client who isn’t aware that you sabotaged it by intentionally picking the misleadingly rated loans most likely to be defaulted upon.
— The best sign at Occupy Wall Street is actually a quote by conservative Atlantic blogger Conor Friedersdorf. Friedersdorf, who is currently spending his time “holed up in a redwood forest on the Northern California coast” found out about the sign somewhat serendipitously, and has a great story to tell about it. Also, check out this video of a crowd using the “people’s microphone” to read the sign in Times Square.
