Daily Archives: Sept. 29, 2008

Recent big bank mergers are like “shotgun weddings”

I found this in my e-mail inbox this morning, courtesy of MarketWatch and apparently sent minutes before the Citi-Wachovia merger was announced:

The credit crisis has forced together more shotgun weddings than in the families of Alaskan politicians. Now, consider the case of Wells Fargo and Wachovia.

But when I clicked on the link, this is what I got.

It’s interesting that the term “Alaskan” no longer appears in the commentary.