This new period of boom-bust makes for some very strange bedfellows. Below is the video of Henry Blodget, the former Oppenheimer and Merrill Lynch Technology analyst, talking to Eliot Spitzer, the former New York attorney general who chased him out of the securities industry.
Both men have suffered major reputational damage and are trying hard to redeem themselves by acting as sceptical voices of reform in this period of financial crisis.
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