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By 阿杜.Steward
Shanghai


Well I know I know, the world doesn’t need another post for the Wall Street Crisis...

华尔街的金融危机被IMF形容为70年之最严重，并且七大洲中除了南极洲都受到影响。对于这个问题，两名的英国漫画家正在用画笔探索答案。这些四个漫画的主角名叫Alex，是一名投资银行家(同时Alex也是其中一位作者的名字)。为了为漫画攫取更多的素材，两名漫画家每天都利用午饭打电话给银行家，了解轶事，传言和丑闻浓缩成风趣的四格漫画，成为漫画主角Alex 的经历。

这不但把华尔街金融从业者的生活描绘得栩栩如生，而且还揭露讽刺了华尔街金融体系的弊端，因此受到许多人的欢迎。而漫画家则希望自己的创作能够起到小小的警示作用，让金融机构吸取教训。金融危机的根源在于政府，金融机构以及个人长期忽视风险的过度投资行为，如果人们不能吸取教训，恐怕Alex的故事将还会有更多题材:P

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Scenario: In Mega-Bank Cost-cutting Off-site discussion

A: So, it’s agreed: The bank will need to cut 10,000 jobs worldwide…

B: Hold on… Has the bank really flown US senior directors here from all over the globe, just to reach this sort of arbitrary and callous decision…?

A: There’s a recession on, David.

B: I know, but what happened to the humane, caring, compassionate image that the bank was so keen to project just a year or so ago?

A: He’s got a point, guys. We’d better offsite the carbon emissions from our flights.

C: Nice idea…and we’ll make that 10,001 job cuts to pay for it…