Which is a reminder that the scale of what went wrong in the sub-prime market was not just any old banking accident, but that the disclosure of losses in this market became the trigger (though not the cause) of the economic malaise that afflicts us to this day.
The prosecution also repeatedly played 30 seconds of surveillance video taken from a bar on the corner of Market and Castro where the accident occurred, which showed from two perspectives pedestrians entering the crosswalk and then Bucchere plowing into one of them.
Whether by foreigners or locals resurgent trading in the Japan market has been a boon to Japanese securities firms, especially the longtime disappointing and accident prone Nomura.
Then, just when miners thought there would be a commercial market from a proliferation of civilian power plant orders and plans, came the 1979 accident at Three Mile Island.
People who make an economic decision to forego health insurance do not opt out of the health care market, but instead shift their costs to others when they become ill or are involved in an accident and cannot pay.
Goldman's ability to spin gold out of virtually any market scenario on a consistent basis is the envy of many on Wall Street, but it is not by accident.