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[[Credit Suisse]] || Switzerland || Gradual decline into entropy with a 92% decline in share price since 2015. || Hubris, widespread incompetence, stupidity, spying, uselessness. || Billions and billions over a series of avoidable cockups. || Like the old man in Monty Python and the Holy Grail, “I’m not dead. I think I’m going for a walk. I feel happy.” Market (to SNB): “Isn’t there anything you can do?”|| It is not, yet, a crime to make a series of howling cockups<ref>except where the individual cockups were themselves criminal of course</ref> over a credulity-defying period any more than it is a crime to not read an [[AT1]] [[prospectus]]. Reputations damaged for ever, but alas no porridge, however richly deserved it may seem.
[[Post Office Horizon IT scandal]] || UK || Unjustified prosecution and conviction of hundreds of subpostmasters across the UK || [[The Unaccountability Machine|Unaccountability]], groupthink, astonishing collective amnesia, widespread incompetence, [[stupidity]]. || Conviction, imprisonment, suicide and bankruptcy of hundreds of perfectly innocent and quite nice people. || Loss of public honours (CBE). No firings yet: many candidates for defenestration jumped before they could be fired. || Excoriating public humiliation in front of public enquiry. Increasingly likely some criminal prosecutions may follow.

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Post Office Horizon IT scandal || UK || Unjustified prosecution and conviction of hundreds of subpostmasters across the UK || Unaccountability, groupthink, astonishing collective amnesia, widespread incompetence, stupidity. || Conviction, imprisonment, suicide and bankruptcy of hundreds of perfectly innocent and quite nice people. || Loss of public honours (CBE). No firings yet: many candidates for defenestration jumped before they could be fired. || Excoriating public humiliation in front of public enquiry. Increasingly likely some criminal prosecutions may follow.

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