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September 22, 2008

Quote du Jour (2): Disgrace and Leverage

What is truly disgraceful is that investment banks could only manage returns on equity of 15-25% with a balance sheet that was often leveraged to the sky.

         -- Niels Jensen and Jan Wilhelmsen, of Absolute Return Partners

[via John Mauldin]

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