January 31, 2009 12:01 AM
High Finance

President Obama rightly called to task the Lords of Wall Street for their late-year bonuses in the billions of dollars to men and women whose manipulations destroyed not only their own companies, but the entire world's financial system. My first thought was, "how can they possibly explain this one." Then I realized, these guys are so far removed from any semblance of reality they probably don't think they have to. And if they bothered to, it would probably be something like this cartoon.




