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{{a|g|{{disaster cafe}}}}Our salute to the ''very'' occasional missteps, real or imagined, of the world of finance. Named for the scene in ''Naked Gun 2½''<ref>'''No-one''' should be surprised to hear the [[JC]] is a devotee of Zucker and Abrahams films, okay? ''No-one''.</ref> at which Frank Drebin visits the Disaster Cafe, adorned with pictures of the sinking titanic, the [[Hindenburg]], the San Francisco Earthquake, the Ford Edsel, and [[Michael Dukakis]].<ref>Youngsters who don’t know who Mike Dukakis is will just have to go unfulfilled. Okay,  {{google2|Mike|Dukakis}}.</ref>
{{disaster cafe}}Our salute to the ''very'' occasional missteps, real or imagined, of the world of finance. Named for the scene in ''Naked Gun 2½''<ref>'''No-one''' should be surprised to hear the [[JC]] is a devotee of Zucker and Abrahams films, okay? ''No-one''.</ref> in which the great Frank Drebin visits the [[Disaster Cafe]], adorned with pictures of the sinking Titanic, the burning [[Hindenburg]], the San Francisco Earthquake, the [[Ford Edsel]], and [[Michael Dukakis]].<ref>Youngsters who don’t know who [[Michael Dukakis|Mike Dukakis]] is will just have to go unfulfilled. Okay,  {{google2|Mike|Dukakis}}.</ref>


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*{{br|The Unaccountability Machine}}
*[[Enron]]
*[[Long-Term Capital Management]]
*[[Amaranth Advisors LLC]]
*[[Global financial crisis]]
*[[Archegos]]
*[[GameStop]]
*[[But this is a really important client]]
*[[2011 ISDA Equity Derivatives Definitions]]
*[[2011 ISDA Equity Derivatives Definitions]]
*[[2008 ISDA Master Agreement]]
*[[2008 ISDA Master Agreement]]


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Our salute to the very occasional missteps, real or imagined, of the world of finance. Named for the scene in Naked Gun 2½[1] in which the great Frank Drebin visits the Disaster Cafe, adorned with pictures of the sinking Titanic, the burning Hindenburg, the San Francisco Earthquake, the Ford Edsel, and Michael Dukakis.[2]

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References

  1. No-one should be surprised to hear the JC is a devotee of Zucker and Abrahams films, okay? No-one.
  2. Youngsters who don’t know who Mike Dukakis is will just have to go unfulfilled. Okay, let me Google that for you.