Reason why nationalism is ridiculous #684

Losing 12 billion dollars is not a good thing. Yet my finance professor yesterday passed out a newspaper article about the rouge trader who recently lost about 12 billion dollars for his employer. He then went on to say that this was good news because up until then the worst rouge trader in history had been a Canadian. Not only is it weird he thinks losing $12 billion is a good thing. Why is it that he thinks this person from Calgary has any more to do with him then the fellow from France?