Okay, so the title might be a bit off, because i was going to write about the new Financial Crisis Responsibility Fees that the Obama administration is proposing to get back some of the vanished TARP money that was lent to the financial institutions to bail them out of their misery (http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=auzqsRLscCSY&pos=7). They only woke up once the bonuses on wall street agan came to sight. The brilliant thing is that even before the fees is approved by the house, people are thinking of structured products and tax loopholes to minimise it, you have to love the financial minds.
Ah, i remember now where i thought of the title from. There was this article i was reading earlier (http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE60C4W020100113 ) about some country's hippo escaping the zoo. Apparently, the beast was massive, 2 tons it says, and it was the country's only Hippo, and during a calamity, some floods, it happened to escape the zoo. The floods were seasonal, so they should've been expected, (like cycles, you know, the boom and trough kinds), and the cage should've been built accordingly, but it wasn't done, and it broke out into the wild. And even after it broke out, what did the officials do? They let just one guard keep an eye on her, and even continued to feed her in the wild. So much so that even the people's hay is being used as fodder for the beast.
Maybe it was a wierd segue.....or was it, go figure.
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