So, the government policies encourage practices that create a foreseeable tsunami, create too big to fail through cronyism, stay loyal, perpetuating the monster with only token fines, and a wink and a nod, probably to hide their complicity. Meanwhile only the little guy pays. Nope, nothing new here. Clowns to the left of me jokers to the right...

thanks. I don't really watch those things much either plus or minus. Not sure why it would be dinged. Seems like a very well researched article. And I have a friend who was basically destroyed by FINRA during a whistle blowing thing at Merrill Lynch. But I post for me. Not for points.

To me a down vote on an article like that is either a vote that you don't believe it's true (in which case I wish the person would just argue their point) or you are in favor of fraud. Seems like a false dilemma but I don't think so.

this was a great article. I gave you a point, but I see someone dinged it. Trolls in the house

Wow great find on the article. I was thinking about your James Taggart vs Hank Rearden comment and if you compare Rearden Steel to the massive global corporate conglomerates of today I don't think there is a comparison. Rearden Steel or maybe a comparative venture like Microsoft, Apple, Virgin, etc. are really peanuts compared to the global financial markets who are run by the mysterious and ever-changing cogs in the giant machine that produces nothing of any actual value.