Getting Back to "Business as Usual"

[H. Muir]

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[eynon81]

I more or less agree.

let the investment houses be investment house, they should stop pretending to be banks.


let the banks be banks.


Mr. Obama, rebuild this wall.

[H. Muir]

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[eynon81]

[spacemonkey]

That's where our real threat lies, mega banks and wall st, and all the corrupt speculation and other assorted scams that go with it. To bad we're to busy chasing the nomadic goat herder's to notice.

[JDHURF]

The thought that the House is already trying to repeal the tepid regulation of Dodd-Frank is staggering to the mind. These people do not have the least understanding of political economy and/or simply do not give a shit about ushering systemic crises.

[PoS]

Speculation has and always will be a part of capitalism, my main problem with it is that the gubmints of the world bails out rather than let moronic speculators die.

[The Dharma Bum]

[H. Muir]

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[The Dharma Bum]

We should explore economic philosophies other than those that depend on market distribution.
http://www.zcommunications.org/topics/parecon

It's the ability to "profit" from the labors of others that is at the root of all financial malfeasance.

Strike at the root.