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"I am in finance. I am glue."

If you are glue, there is a terrible problem. When you are in finance you should be in the "Thought". You should think on who can pay the bills and who can not, so you could give loans to them or not.

You should be on thinking what is going to be the future and the business strategies that makes sense, business that are sound and solid versus scams to get people's money.

The fact that you consider yourself glue is the main problem. We are in a society when finance means "too big to fail", "we make bad decisions but do not pay for it", and "if people can not pay back its loans(because we lended irresponsibly) , we have to lower the requirements for loans even more".




I don't think is the right way to think about things. How much sense does Instagram make in 2010? How much sense did Twitter make in 2006? How much sense did Amazon make after the dotcom crash? No one has perfect information, and "business that are sound and solid" aren't the ones that need loans. Sound and solid businesses don't need help from finance guys.




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