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Jan 17 2009 7:00pm EDT

Bankers First

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The Economist says that this photo is "one of the most apt visual metaphors for the crisis yet". I'm not sure that it isn't literally true. After all, Charlotte is a banking center, and 23 of the passengers worked at Bank of America alone. I'd say that the passengers in the 12 first-class seats at the front of the plane were disproportionately likely to be bankers, no?

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