With media outlets and politicians heaping sympathy on subprime borrowers on the brink of losing everything, it's important to keep in mind the real victims on this mess: that's right, the mortgage brokers who got us into it.As if plummeting earnings from the decline in subprime lending weren't bad enough, subprime write down poster child Countrywide Financial (NYSE: CFC) canceled its annual ski party at the Rittz-Carlton Bachelor Gulch in Avon, Colorado, where the company puts up 30 of its most valued correspondent lenders (at $725+ per night) and treats them to skiing and $140 caviar and Kurobuta pork osso bucco at Wolfgang Puck's restaurant.
It looks like this year the closest they'll be getting to Spago is the Wolfgang Puck canned dumpling soup available for $31.20 per 12-pack on Amazon.com. Even that might be a stretch in this market. But there's always Chef Boyardee.
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