Sure... let 'em run the country...

The Audacity of Stupid. Someone who know what they are doing gets fired by people who don't know what they are doing and the ones that don't know what they are doing are then promoted.

Ya gotta laugh to keep from crying...

Harvard Derivatives Whiz Fired For Emailing Larry Summers About "Frightening" Trades? | TPMMuckraker:
"A former quantitative analyst at Harvard Management Company, the university's once-vaunted endowment manager, tells the Harvard Crimson she was fired for voicing concern to then-university president Larry Summers' chief of staff about the money manager's risky use of derivatives the traders didn't understand.

The episode dates back to 2002, when analyst Iris Mack, whose website identifies her as the second African American woman to earn a Harvard PhD. in applied math (and someone who likes primary colors) joined the much-venerated Harvard Management Company, which invests the university's then $18 billion endowment, to find what she termed a 'frightening' state of affairs.

'The group I was working for had no background whatsoever to be working on [derivatives],' Mack says, adding that, to her knowledge, several of her colleagues were not licensed securities traders. 'Sometimes the ways they handled even basic Black-Scholes models [widely used to price stock options] were puzzling.'

So Mack took inventory of the abuses -- high employee turnover, lax risk management practices and a 'low level of productivity in the workplace' were among others, and detailed them in an email to Marne Levine, Summers' chief of staff and a Treasury staffe"