I rarely post anything finance related on here, but this is simply too on-point to pass up.

“Cowards. Criminal toadies. Chickenshit pimps who would sell their mothers into forced prostitution for a buck. That is Merrill Lynch, and the fact that a single goddamned dollar of my tax money went to these spineless, money-grubbing parasites makes my stomach turn. If Goldman Sachs is a vampire squid, then Merrill Lynch is Escherichia coli of banking. Whatever they touch gets sick, and occasionally dies.

I’ve said this before, and I will repeat it here: If you are a Merrill Lynch client, and they lose you money, you have forfeited the right to complain to anyone — its your own damned fault. Anyone who gives money to these incompetents, fools and weasels gets exactly what they deserve . . .”

– Barry Ritholtz, from his must-read blog The Big Picture, summing up Michael Lewis’s Vanity Fair piece on Merrill and Ireland.