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13th Floor Elevator

Am I the only person that thinks the point of the cartoon isn't that the book is powerful but that it is extremely unwieldy? This suggests that the new bureaucracy created by financial reform will be ineffective in its attempts at regulation. Maybe I'm just a pessimist...


Wall St. and the financial sector in the UK put the whole world into this crisis. Where are the ones to blame? The big fat banking cats? Some where in the world spending my and your taxes (given by the UK AND USA governments). Regulation is not going to make too much difference; The FSA (financial service authority) knew about this financial turmoil and did nothing.


KAL can do better.

It's a thick book to "we the people"

To the "bankers," it's a swiss cheese cloth with lots and lots of holes. After all, the bankers or their surrogates wrote the law.

They must think we're stupid? or maybe they just know that we're powerless peons.


If ignorant people would stop dealing with Wall Street, they would find it harder to separate the fools from their money. So why was the British PM courting Wall Street on his visit? Didn't they wreak enough havoc on the British economy? He wants them to do it again? Regulations are irrelevant. Global finance has been tried and failed but nothing can stop it unless investors refuse to play in their sand box.


What Kal doesn't show is that the driver has ploughed through a fence, ran a red light and probably knocked over all the 'little people' crossing the road before he has been pulled over.


If you are not part of the solution, then you are part of the problem. From the comments so far, me thinks Wall St will win the day.
Nothing personal guys; yet don't you think you just get the Congress and the Financial system you expect to get? And if you expect Obama's changes to fail, then I guess you can happily tell everyone 'I told you so' when it does fail; then in some sad way you could enjoy the doom and gloom that will come with it.

Some people expect very little from life, so they are rarely disappointed!

I'm not such a person! Through order and structure, chaos can be replaced by a solid future, society will continue. Who knows what form it will take, perhaps revolution will remove a bunch of negative do-nothings standing in the way? Or maybe Wall St will understand the difference between soft and hard capitalism and show us its softer side.
We can only live in Hope.

Chadborne Whiting

I feel this is a good enough opportunity to announce my campaign for the office of King of America. I wont throw the book at anyone - I'll just take their books instead. Speculation over, capitalism crushed, Economist sad, problems solved. Then begins the fun... how to un-screw ourselves as species.


stand up? lol, and what standing up are you doing? One vote counts for nothing. Millions of Americans are angry with Wall Street and yet millions of votes count for nothing when wall street has hundreds of millions to buy Congress.


Ah, furbabies; u have not faith at all!

True, it will be hard to enforce, yet what choice does the world have? We either stand up to Wall St or just let them screw us again; which option do u like?
We need to get real on this issue of controlling Wall St or go find a hole in the ground and wait for the end.


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