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Alessio Rastani, 'Trader' by noteworthy at 6:54 am EDT, Sep 28, 2011
Alessio Rastani:
I'm an attention seeker. That is the main reason I speak. That is the reason I agreed to go on the BBC. Trading is a like a hobby. It is not a business. I am a talker. I talk a lot. I love the whole idea of public speaking.
Emily Lambert:
Was his little talk a hoax? When I reached Rastani in London to ask, he spouted some vague wisdom, mentioned his "trader friends," and insisted that trading is his obsession.
Jonathan Russell:
A man who doesn't own the house he lives in, but can sum up the financial crisis in just three minutes - a knack that escapes many financial commentators.
John Bird and John Fortune:
They thought that if they had a bigger mortgage they could get a bigger house. They thought if they had a bigger house, they would be happy. It's pathetic. I've got four houses and I'm not happy.
Andy Bilchbaum:
We've never heard of Rastani. Despite widespread speculation, he isn't a Yes Man.
Joe Nocera:
They just want theirs. That is the culture they have created.
Eric Schmidt:
You get a billion people doing something, there's lots of ways to make money. Absolutely, trust me. We'll get lots of money for it.
Trader on the BBC says Eurozone Market will crash by w1ld at 11:08 pm EDT, Oct 1, 2011
In a scary and painfully frank interview BBC interviewer Maxine Croxall, is visibly shaken when market trader Alessio Rastani predicts that the "Market is Toast." Apparently there is nothing Euro governments can do.
