Excellent article, but the notion that we should believe that idiocy was at the heart of this seems quite wrong to me. At best, willful idiocy. It seems more l

Excellent article, but the notion that we should believe that idiocy was at the heart of this seems quite wrong to me. At best, willful idiocy. It seems more likely to me to fall under the Wall Street koan, "You'll be gone, I'll be gone", rather than bad math.