Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for July 14, 2016
Transcript:
Dumbarton: Mr. Slackmeyer, I"ll try to be brief. I"m just a junior lawyer with the S.E.C., and I realize you've got more important things to do than talk to me. However, we've been going over recent transaction records, and it seems your firm sold all its merger-related stocks just before the Boesky scandal broke. Slackmeyer: I'm dead. Dumbarton: Telephone records indicate you talk to Boesky minutes before you sold. My superiors find that very peculiar. Slackmeyer: I better check on those reservations. Dumbarton: Personally, I think it's all a big coincidence. Slackmeyer: Bless you.
BE THIS GUY over 8 years ago
I see someone is looking for a better paying job in the private sector.
Argythree over 8 years ago
I wonder who fixed this up in advance?
Flash Gordon over 8 years ago
The government should own most stock with the remainderdistributed among the workers.
David Huie Green LoveJoyAndPeace over 8 years ago
Never ascribe to conspiracy what can just as easily be ascribed to stupidity.This doesn’t work as easily with luck or genius.Much less likely.
Liverlips McCracken Premium Member over 8 years ago
Can’t spell “Dumbarton” without “dumb”.
NeedaChuckle Premium Member over 8 years ago
If I see some cash, I’ll be certain that it is a coincidence.
rlcooke over 8 years ago
Hey, if we didn’t have this overgrown Big Government, with all those bureaucrat-infested agencies like the SEC, the FDA, the FAA, the CDC, etc., the Free Market would handle all this, and good citizens like Boesky could carry out their socially beneficent works in peace. Once people started dying from contaminated food and medicine, the Free Market would adjust by putting the malefactors out of business as those canny consumers started voting with their dollars. (Uh, wait a minute, what was in that stuff I was smoking?)
gantech over 8 years ago
Good thing…Slackmeyer was about to start singing “Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door”.
whiteaj over 8 years ago
The “coincidence without proof” sounds a lot like the Clinton Foundation contributions which timed so fortuitously with favorable decisions by the Department of State.
Honorable Mention In The Banjo Toss Premium Member over 8 years ago
Pass Go, and collect another $200,000,000 dollars.
route66paul over 8 years ago
They don’t mind the regulations, they mind it only if enforced.
Ralph Newbill over 8 years ago
Yep, that is always Hillary’s excuse…