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...enormous profit when the government buys them at higher rates? The current owners of those securities aren't going to want to sell them for pennies on the dollar if they think the government will come in soon and buy them for dimes. That said, I think Treasury would love it if there were private vulture investors bidding for mortgage assets...
...when our more pragmatically-minded friends are starting to worry about their prospects, we feel a little complacent. We never expected to make six figures out of college. We were never in it for the money. We were in it for the love of English, or music, or the classics, or because environmental science and public policy was too challenging. As our practical classmates divided their time between resolving economics problem sets and drawing up plans for penthouses, we answered the distant call to contribute something of ourselves to the human race. We had callings! We were going...
...friends were snapped up by i-banking firms, we shrugged and tried to look unconcerned. They might soon be raking in the dough. But we’d just written a screenplay about love among the sea-monkeys. Surely that counted for more in the cosmic balance than a plum internship at Lehman Brothers! Or so we muttered to ourselves as we curled up on our low thread-count sheets every night...
...Rolexes and the squash club membership? Or does the homo economicus make your heart quiver with rapture? The time has come to choose! Given the state of the economy, you probably won’t be making six figures anyway. You might as well study what you love. So if you don’t lie awake at night dreaming of ways to maximize your utility, perhaps you should start signing up for those philosophy courses you always wanted to take. Consider: If people hear you’re a starving philosopher, they will nod sympathetically. If you tell them...
...resigned ourselves to it because we were following our passions. In their defense, so were the economics students. It just happened that their passion was making lots of money. But given the current state of Wall Street, this dream seems increasingly remote. Nowadays, if money is what you love, you should probably...