Comments on The WaMu Meltdown

Your stories are fun! The sort of quirky, personal perspective on the financial crisis that plays to The Stranger's strengths. Except, of course, for Charles contribution.

@ Bethany Jean Clement,

First of all, can we please stop blaming the people that work at branches and call centers for the severe fuck***ups of the Harvard MBAs in upper management? These people work their asses off, have families to feed, most of them truly care about their customers, and they've made WaMu's branch network rock-solid. WaMu's management treats them like total crap, btw.

Second, what exactly do you suppose Bank of America/Merrill Lynch is gonna do with your money? That was well thought out.

HOLD IT!?!?! My FELLOW stranger staffers w/$$$ STILL in Wamu AFTER they were CON the MONORAILl!! SHIT. WTF guys? I'm so telling Josh Feit!

BJC wrote something out of emotion, not analytics. are you surprised?

This "article" is about as astute as the Stranger's sports coverage. Which is to say, not very.

Way to be quick on the uptake and start owning the local story for us. Yay.
(and mike nipper for the win win win)

I find it hilarious that savage did an ARM. Why? Why did you do it savage? Didn't you consult a crank or cynic beforehand?

I'm telling you. Once you try banking the viking way, you'll feel like you went berzerk and pillaged your balance back to financial health. Plus, free axe with qualifying deposit.