Man Eating Tigers

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Mark Mobius, executive chairman of Templeton Asset Management’s emerging markets group, said another financial crisis is inevitable because the causes of the previous one haven’t been resolved.

“There is definitely going to be another financial crisis around the corner because we haven’t solved any of the things that caused the previous crisis,” Mobius said at the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Japan in Tokyo today in response to a question about price swings. “Are the derivatives regulated? No. Are you still getting growth in derivatives? Yes.”

The total value of derivatives in the world exceeds total global gross domestic product by a factor of 10, said Mobius, who oversees more than $50 billion. With that volume of bets in different directions, volatility and equity market crises will occur, he said.

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“I do think that there could be another major problem. Now, will it happen next week, next year, i don’t know and certainly nobody knows, but I don’t think that the system is working properly. I really find it amazing that we’re almost back to where it was, where there’s so much leverage going on in the investment banks today. There’s just way too much leverage and way too much risk-taking, with other people’s money. I know a lot of my friends on Wall Street will hate my saying this, but the Glass Steagall thing or something like it wasn’t a bad thing. In other words, a bank should be a bank. Investment bankers should be investment bankers. Investment bankers serve a purpose, raising capital and whatever, but I think today, and I know a lot of people won’t like hearing this, what’s going on today, I think we’re going back in the same trap, and I will tell you that very few people understood how toxic and how risky those derivatives were. CDS were extremely risky the way they were used, and you look at Wall Street and you say, hey, they did it, but then you can’t really blame the Wall Street guys. You can’t blame a tiger. If you take a fierce man-eating tiger and put him in with a lot of sheep, you can’t blame the tiger for eating the sheep. And that’s the nature of the tiger. And that’s the nature of Wall Street. I’m not saying they’re bad but that’s their nature, and the government should regulate finance.

Frank Buck captures a man-eating tiger « Retrieverman's Weblog

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Frank Buck made several films of this type, which were widely popular in the 1930′s and 40′s.

Buck was born in Texas, where he became an expert at catching all sorts of animals. After a possessing a winning hand at poker, he wound up in Brazil, where he caught several birds. When he returned to New York, he was able to sell these birds at profits that he couldn’t imagine.

And that’s how the famed animal collector got started.

This particular film was mostly taken on the estates of the Sultan Ibrahim of Johor in what was then the British colony of Malaya.  This Sultan was one of the Empire’s puppet rulers– and one of the richest men in the world at the time.

I don’t know if this cat actually weighed 500 pounds or if it actually had been a man-eater.

But it is good Hollywood.

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