by Tanta on 10/02/2007 12:17:00 PM

Because everything has gotten so boring and predictable.

Here's the quote. Your job is to identify the speaker (without Google):

``The Wall Street firms were under real pressure to supply asset-backed securities, and the Wall Street firms were pressing the lenders to give them more raw material,'' [mystery speaker] said today. ``Credit standards just went straight down, and applications for subprime mortgages soared. The consequences of that are evident.''

I'll give you a hint: it wasn't me, and it wasn't CR.