If I Do Say So Myself

Googling one's own name is sometimes called a "vanity search." In my case, the practice calls for another name, since I can assure you the results are generally 10-1 ungratifying to vanity. Call it defensive Googling. But this morning it did yield a positive result, unearthing a line I'd written in 2008 that seems even more apt today. I'll take the liberty of reposting it now:

The shapers of the American mortgage finance system hoped to achieve the security of government ownership, the integrity of local banking and the ingenuity of Wall Street. Instead they got the ingenuity of government, the security of local banking and the integrity of Wall Street.

Still too true, alas.