Quote of the Day: White Collar Crime

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| Mon Feb. 28, 2011 1:22 PM PST

From Felix Salmon, on white-collar crime:

The fact is that white-collar criminals are, in general, incredibly good at deluding themselves that they’re good people, even when they clearly aren’t.

True! And true of lots of white collar not-quite-but-probably-ought-to-be criminals too.

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