The hills are alive with the sound of illusions falling like dead fish onto a pier. The proud, entitled princes of the tech world have proven to be babes in the financial woods. The collapse of the Silicon Valley Bank had them jettisoning libertarian disruption in favor of abject pleading for bailouts, lifeboats, and all manner of conventional corporate socialism. Compared to these honkers, Dick Fuld at Lehman Brothers went out with dignity and grace.
And the capper was delivered by the insufferable Larry Summers, who emerged from the luxurious shadows of his own ego.
