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As Matt Levine said, if you owe the bank a million dollars, you have a problem. If you owe the bank 100 million dollars, the bank has a problem.

• staticautomatic 7y ago
  I don't know who said that first but it certainly wasn't Matt Levine.
  • hkmurakami 7y ago
    right, should have said "has oft quoted". Thanks for the correction.
  • anonu 7y ago
    J Paul Getty said this first, allegedly.
  • lainga 7y ago
    But the big question (for longtime readers) is: does that misattribution count as securities fraud?
    • solveit 7y ago
      Since it could potentially lead to a drop in the price of MATT, it could well be fraud if it weren't disclosed.
    • Atheros 7y ago
      Did you disclose to your employer that you were going to ask that question on HackerNews? If not, that's securities fraud.