Not quite LOLTRADRZ, but still funny.

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Quote from Friday.

From http://londonbanker.blogspot.com/2008/10/turbulence-and-trends.html:

My fear is that the failure to address the systemic issues as a whole will be a vulnerability exploited by US banks and authorities as they try to undermine London as a financial centre, gaming the fragile global markets.

There is still a touching confidence among many in the City [of London] that the US authorities will provide the “leadership” to reinforce collapsing markets. As John Plender of the Financial Times quipped, “Gaul votes for Rome to take the strain.” This seems to me to display a total incomprehension of the way US authorities operate to externalise pain and loss to the greatest extent possible in times of crisis. Gaul, after all, was an occupied state that was militarily and economically exploited to Rome’s advantage for centuries before Rome’s collapse. Saving Gaul was never a high priority once Rome was threatened.

I have little idea how accurate either the Roman history or the policy analysis is--although both certainly seem plausible--but I'm pleased by the reference.