Tony Boyd has hit it on the nose, as...

Tony Boyd has hit it on the nose, as usual:

http://www.businessspectator.com.au/bs.nsf/Article/Last-play-for-Babcock-$pd20090206-NZAZG?OpenDocument&src=sph

"The details of the restructure revealed today make it clear that management's plans to scrounge some sort of future for Babcock & Brown have been abandoned."

However, T S Eliot said it better in "The Hollow Men":

This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper.