Felix Salmon submits:

It’s almost quaint that there are still people out there who believe that all market participants are always rational actors making decisions in their own economic best interest. Take Daniel Indiviglio, who even stands up for IndyMac and its “inequitable, unconscionable, vexatious and opprobrious” regional manager, Karen Dickinson:

I’m a little confused about how Salmon proposes that the bank here wasn’t acting in its own best interest. If he means that its actions led to a judge awarding the home to the borrower, and that screws the bank, well that’s true. But I seriously doubt that the bank believed that its actions would lead to that outcome…

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